焠 — 12 strokes / Radical「火」
道1University / general (hardest) / 12 strokes / Radical「火」
- On
- サイ・スイさい・すい · sai · sui
- Kun
- や.くya.ku
- Meaning
- to temper a blade
Stroke order
Origin
Fire 火 with 卒 as phonetic: to heat a blade and quench it to harden.
Compounds
- 焠にらぐ
to temper (a blade)
- 焠励さいれい
tempering oneself
Example
刀を焠いで刃を強くする。
The sword is tempered to strengthen the edge.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)