Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
straw
Kun:
わら
On:
コウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2488 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 藁 【わら】 straw
  • 笑 【わら】 LOL, haha
  • 敷き藁 【しきわら】 (animal's) litter, bedding
  • 巻藁 【まきわら】 straw post for training sword strikes, karate punches and arrow hits

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gao3
Korean:
go

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4083 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2682 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3015 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2103 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
32222X Morohashi
5234 New Nelson (John Haig)
2400 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2480 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k14.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-14 SKIP code
2-4-14 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-47-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
85c1 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:

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Kun reading compounds

  • 掴む 【つかむ】 to seize, to catch, to grasp, to grip, to grab, to clutch, to hold, to catch hold of, to lay one's hands on, to obtain, to acquire, to get, to win, to capture, to understand, to grasp, to comprehend
  • 捕まえる 【つかまえる】 to catch, to capture, to arrest, to seize, to restrain, to grab, to clutch, to grasp, to seize, to hold on to, to catch hold of (someone), to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street), to hail (a taxi, waiter, etc.), to hold (someone) back, to detain, towards (someone), at (someone), in (someone's) face
  • 捕まる 【つかまる】 to be caught, to be arrested, to hold on to, to grasp, to find (e.g. proof), to get (e.g. a taxi), to be detained by

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2, guai1
Korean:
gwig

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1985 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
616 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12572X Morohashi
690 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2174 New Nelson (John Haig)
2249 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2354 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3c11.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
5600.0 Four corner code
1-36-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
63b4 Unicode hex code