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彎 — 22 strokes ／ Radical「弓」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 22 strokes ／ Radical「弓」
On
ワンわん · wan
Kun
ひ.くhi.ku
Meaning
to curve; to draw a bow

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Bow 弓 with 䜌 as phonetic: to draw a bow, and to curve like one.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 彎曲わんきょく

    a curve; bending

  • 湾曲わんきょく

    curvature (usual writing)

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

背骨(せぼね)の彎曲(わんきょく)が見(み)つかった。

A curvature of the spine was found.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

彎曲湾曲彎曲bend湾bay弖te弩a cros…弭bow ti…弓bow引to pul…綰to coi…蜿windin…豌used…腕arm椀wooden…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 弓Map of reading ワンAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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