Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かやちがや
On:
ボウミョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1895 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 茅屋 【ボウオク】 thatched cottage, hovel, my humble cottage
  • 茅茨 【ボウシ】 thatched roof, cogon grass and thorny shrubs (materials for thatching roofs)

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 茅場 【かやば】 hayfield, field of miscanthus
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 茅 【ちがや】 cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Readings

Japanese names:
ち、 じ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mao2
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • gramíneas (junco
  • heno
  • etc.)

Portuguese

French

3924 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
690 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2214 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2779 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1425 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1922 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30836X Morohashi
5005 New Nelson (John Haig)
2385 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2468 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4422.2 Four corner code
1-19-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8305 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 葺く 【ふく】 to roof (a house with some material), to thatch, to shingle, to tile
  • 葺石 【ふきいし】 round boulders covering the slopes of a burial mound (Kofun period)
  • 葺き板 【ふきいた】 shingles

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi4
Korean:
jeub

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3995 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1720 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2909 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2021 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31465X Morohashi
5125 New Nelson (John Haig)
2392 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2473 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k9.25 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
4440.1 Four corner code
1-41-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
847a Unicode hex code