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沌 — 7 strokes ／ Radical「氵」

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On
トンとん · ton
Kun
くら.いkura.i
Meaning
primeval chaos

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Water with 屯 "to gather": water mingling so that nothing is yet separated.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 混沌こんとん

    chaos

  • 渾沌こんとん

    primeval chaos

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

事故(じこ)の直後(ちょくご)は現場(げんば)が混沌(こんとん)としていた。

Right after the accident the scene was chaos.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

混沌渾沌沌混to mix渾whole汀water’…汐evenin…汝thou汲draw…沫foam吞swallo…惇sincer…遁to fle…敦sincer…噸ton
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 氵Map of reading トンAll maps

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