Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
small, edible, helical fresh-water mollusk
Kun:
にしにな
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

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On reading compounds

  • 螺 【ニシ】 small spiral-shelled snail, spiral shellfish
  • 螺旋 【ラセン】 spiral, helix, screw
  • 馬蹄螺 【バテイラ】 Omphalius pfeifferi pfeifferi (subspecies of top shell)
  • サラサ馬蹄螺 【サラサバテイラ】 Tectus maximus (species of top shell)

Kun reading compounds

  • 螺 【にし】 small spiral-shelled snail, spiral shellfish
  • 赤螺 【あかにし】 veined rapa whelk (Rapana venosa)
  • 長螺 【ながにし】 perplexed spindle (species of sea snail, Fusinus perplexus)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
luo2
Korean:
ra, re

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4184 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2805 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1799 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1293 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
33512 Morohashi
5382 New Nelson (John Haig)
2691 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2730 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d11.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-11 SKIP code
5619.3 Four corner code
1-45-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
87ba Unicode hex code

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 花鈿 【カデン】 ornamental hairpin, makeup involving flower patterns, etc.
  • 螺鈿 【ラデン】 mother-of-pearl

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dian4, tian2
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4834 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1940 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
40279 Morohashi
6243 New Nelson (John Haig)
8a5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8610.0 Four corner code
1-78-79 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
923f Unicode hex code