剞 — 10 strokes / Radical「刂」
道1University / general (hardest) / 10 strokes / Radical「刂」
- On
- キき · ki
- Kun
- きざ.むkiza.mu
- Meaning
- carving knife
Stroke order
Origin
Blade 刂 with 奇 as phonetic: the small knife used to carve printing blocks.
Compounds
- 剞劂きけつ
carving tools; woodblock cutting
- 彫刻ちょうこく
carving; engraving
Example
剞劂の技で版木を丁寧に彫る。
The block is carved carefully with the engraver's craft.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)