Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
winding, reel, spin, turn (pages), look up, refer to
Kun:
く.る
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
872 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 繰糸 【ソウシ】 reeling (silk)
  • 繰糸機 【ソウシキ】 silk reeling machine

Kun reading compounds

  • 繰る 【くる】 to reel, to wind, to spin (thread), to turn (pages), to flip through (a book), to leaf through (a book), to consult (a dictionary), to refer to (an encyclopedia), to count (e.g. the days), to open one-by-one, to close one-by-one (e.g. shutters)

Readings

Japanese names:
くり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiao1, zao3
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • devanar
  • ovillar
  • pasar páginas

Portuguese

  • curva
  • bobina
  • giro
  • virar (páginas)
  • melhorar
  • referis-se a

French

  • embobiner
  • bobine
  • faire tourner
  • tourner (pages)
  • feuilleter
  • parler de
1190 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1264 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3619 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1347 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1652 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1654 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1768 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
902 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1563 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1806 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
961 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1300 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1381 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27953 Morohashi
1427 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4602 New Nelson (John Haig)
1369 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1469 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1918 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2764 2001 Kanji
6a13.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-13 SKIP code
2699.4 Four corner code
1-23-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e70 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
say, word
Kun:
い.うこと
On:
ゲンゴン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
83 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 言 【ゲン】 word, remark, statement
  • 言及 【ゲンキュウ】 reference, allusion
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 狂言 【キョウゲン】 kyogen, farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play, kabuki play, kabuki performance, make-believe, ruse, trick
  • 言語 【ゲンゴ】 language
  • 言下 【ゲンカ】 promptly
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 二言 【ニゴン】 double-dealing, double tongue, going back on what one has said, repeating oneself

Kun reading compounds

  • 言う 【いう】 to say, to utter, to declare, to name, to call, to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise
  • 言うまでもない 【いうまでもない】 goes without saying, needless to say, obvious
  • 言 【げん】 word, remark, statement
  • 言葉 【ことば】 language, dialect, word, phrase, expression, term, speech, (manner of) speaking, (use of) language, words, remark, statement, comment, learning to speak, language acquisition
  • 禍言 【まがごと】 ominous word, ill-omened word, misfortune
  • 二言 【ふたこと】 two words, repetition

Readings

Japanese names:
とき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
eon

Spanish

  • palabras
  • decir

Portuguese

  • Dizer
  • palavras

French

  • dire
392 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
118 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
274 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
279 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4309 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
43 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
85 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
439 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
66 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
66 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
203 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1653 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2440 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1698 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
341 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35205 Morohashi
1941 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5552 New Nelson (John Haig)
335 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
357 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
44 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
142 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-6 SKIP code
0060.1 Four corner code
1-24-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a00 Unicode hex code