結 — 12 strokes / Radical「糸」
道7Elementary year 4 / 12 strokes / Radical「糸」
- On
- ケツ・ケチけつ・けち · ketsu · kechi
- Kun
- むす(ぶ)・ゆ(う)・ゆ(わえる)musu(bu) · yu(u) · yu(waeru)
- Meaning
- tie, bind, join, conclude
Stroke order
Origin
Phonetic-semantic: 糸 (thread) gives the meaning and 吉 the sound; to tie or bind threads together.
Readings and examples
| Onケツけつketsu | 結論けつろん結婚けっこん連結れんけつ |
|---|---|
| Kunむすぶmusubu | 結ぶむすぶ結びむすび |
| Kunゆうyū | 結うゆう元結もっとい |
| Kunゆわえるyuwaeru | 結わえるゆわえる |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 結果けっか
result, outcome
- 結局けっきょく
in the end, after all
- 結構けっこう
- 結論けつろん
- 結婚けっこん
- 締結ていけつ
- 凍結とうけつ
- 結晶けっしょう
Example
くつのひもをかたく結びました。
I tied my shoelaces tightly.
Idioms with this kanji
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
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Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)