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硯 — 12 strokes ／ Radical「石」

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On
ケン・ゲンけん・げん · ken · gen
Kun
すずりsuzuri
Meaning
inkstone

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Stone with 見 as phonetic: the flat stone on which ink is ground.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 硯すずり

    inkstone

  • 硯箱すずりばこ

    writing box

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

硯(すずり)で墨(すみ)をすってから書(か)く。

I grind the ink on the inkstone before writing.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

硯箱硯箱box砧fullin…砥whetst…砦fort硲ravine碍to obs…彦fine…姦noisy狽to be…這to cra…牽to pul…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

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