砥 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「石」
道準1University / general ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「石」
- On
- シ・テイ・キイ・チ
- Kun
- と・といし・と.ぐ・みが.く
- Meaning
- whetstone; to sharpen
Origin
Stone 石 with 氐 "low and flat": the flat stone used for grinding — a whetstone.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 砥石といし
whetstone
- 砥ぐとぐ
to sharpen; to hone
Example
砥石で包丁をていねいに研いだ。
I honed the kitchen knife carefully on the whetstone.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)