瑇 — 13 strokes ／ Radical「玉」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 13 strokes ／ Radical「玉」
- On
- タイ
- Kun
- たいまい
- Meaning
- the hawksbill turtle
Origin
Jade 玉 with 毒 as phonetic: the hawksbill sea turtle, whose shell yields tortoiseshell.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 瑇瑁たいまい
the hawksbill turtle
- 玳瑁たいまい
the same turtle, written another way
Example
瑇瑁の甲は飴色に透ける。
The hawksbill’s shell is translucent, the colour of toffee.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)