Jisho

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 臍下 【セイカ】 lower abdomen
  • 臍下丹田 【セイカタンデン】 pit of the stomach
  • 噬臍 【ゼイセイ】 bitter regret
  • 膃肭臍 【オットセイ】 fur seal (esp. the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus), Alaskan fur seal
  • 臍帯 【サイタイ】 umbilical cord
  • 臍帯下垂 【サイタイカスイ】 umbilical cord prolapse

Kun reading compounds

  • 臍 【へそ】 navel, belly button, protrusion or depression in the middle of an object, center, centre, most important part, main point
  • 臍猪 【へそいのしし】 peccary
  • お臍 【おへそ】 navel, belly button
  • 臍 【へそ】 navel, belly button, protrusion or depression in the middle of an object, center, centre, most important part, main point
  • 臍を固める 【ほぞをかためる】 to make up one's mind (to do something), to resolve firmly (to do something)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi2
Korean:
je

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3829 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
29967 Morohashi
4887 New Nelson (John Haig)
4b14.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-14 SKIP code
7022.3 Four corner code
1-71-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81cd Unicode hex code

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