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Jōyō kanji8th grade kanji4 strokes

Tags

Jōyō kanji
Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
8th grade kanji
Kanji learned in eight grade (junior high school) #grade-8
4 strokes
Kanji with 4 strokes #strokes-4

Reading

  • On'yomi
    ソウ
  • Kun'yomi
    つめつま-
  • Chinese (pinyin)
    zhua3zhao3
  • Korean (hangul)
  • Korean (romanized)
    jo
  • Vietnamese
    Trảo
  • Kantenji (braille kanji)
    ⢅⡺

Meaning

Stroke order

Not available for this kanji.

爪 stroke 1爪 stroke 2爪 stroke 3爪 stroke 4爪 stroke 5
Number of strokes: 4

Components in kanji 爪

Popular words containing this kanji

つめ
popularJLPT N2noun (generic)
  • nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail), claw, talon, hoof
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Extended information

  • Frequency2025
  • KANJIDIC Project

    1942

    "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)

    2822

    "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig

    3509

    "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern

    3024

    "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig

    727

    "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill

    115

    "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill

    1887

    "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi

    19653:7:564

    "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)

    1320

    "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the volume.chapter

    0

    Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig

    735

    "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig

    784

    "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern

    3756

    "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern

    2605
  • Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code

    3-3-1

    The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky

    0a4.9

    The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928

    7223.0
  • JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding nn-nn

    1-36-62

    Decimal representation of the UTF16 character

    29226