篝 — 16 strokes ／ Radical「竹」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 16 strokes ／ Radical「竹」
- On
- コウ
- Kun
- かがりび・かがり・ふせご
- Meaning
- a fire basket; a watch fire
Origin
Bamboo 竹 with 冓 as phonetic: the bamboo cage in which a fire is burned.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 篝火かがりび
a watch fire; a bonfire
- 篝かがり
a fire basket
Example
川原に篝火を焚く。
They light watch fires on the riverbed.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)