Jisho

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11 strokes (also 12)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
arrowroot, kudzu
Kun:
つづらくず
On:
カツカチ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1547 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 葛 【くず】 kudzu (Pueraria montana), Japanese arrowroot, Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
  • 葛籠 【つづら】 wicker clothes hamper
  • 熊葛 【くまつづら】 common vervain (Verbena officinalis), common verbena
  • 葛 【くず】 kudzu (Pueraria montana), Japanese arrowroot, Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
  • 葛餡 【くずあん】 kudzu sauce

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 かず、 かずら、 かっ、 かつら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ge3, ge2
Korean:
gal

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3997 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1994 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2905 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2017 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31420X Morohashi
5060 New Nelson (John Haig)
2398 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
492 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k9.22 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
4472.7 Four corner code
1-19-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
845b Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
turban, scarf
Parts:
linen, cloth, spread, distribute
Kun:
ぬのし.くきれ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
877 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 布 【ヌノ】 cloth, fabric, material, textile, bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
  • 布教 【フキョウ】 propagation (e.g. a religion), proselytizing, missionary work
  • 麻布 【アサヌノ】 hemp cloth, linen
  • 公布 【コウフ】 official proclamation, announcement, promulgation (e.g. of regulations)
  • 布衣 【ホイ】 linen kariginu, plain kariginu (Edo period), commoner
  • 布衣始 【ホウイハジメ】 ceremony in which an abdicated emperor puts on informal court clothes (i.e. a kariginu and eboshi) for the first time

Kun reading compounds

  • 布 【ぬの】 cloth, fabric, material, textile, bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
  • 布地 【ぬのじ】 fabric, cloth, material
  • 麻布 【あさぬの】 hemp cloth, linen
  • 磨き布 【みがきぬの】 polishing cloth
  • 敷く 【しく】 to spread out, to lay out, to cover, to lay (e.g. railway tracks), to sit on, to take a position, to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
  • 切れ地 【きれじ】 fabric, cloth, material, traditionally patterned textiles, fabric scraps
  • ボロ布 【ぼろきれ】 old cloth, rag

Readings

Japanese names:
う、 の、 ほ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bu4
Korean:
po

Spanish

  • paño
  • tela
  • difusión

Portuguese

  • Linho
  • pano

French

  • linge
706 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
799 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
778 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
749 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1468 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
737 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
494 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
170 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
675 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
688 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
887 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
557 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3691 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1886 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2566 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
412 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8778 Morohashi
2973 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1548 New Nelson (John Haig)
405 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
433 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
653 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1444 2001 Kanji
3f2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-3 SKIP code
4022.7 Four corner code
1-41-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e03 Unicode hex code