莢 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
- On
- キョウ
- Kun
- さや
- Meaning
- a pod
Origin
Grass 艹 with 夾, to hold between, as phonetic: the pod that encloses beans.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 莢さや
a pod
- 莢隠元さやいんげん
green beans
Example
莢ごと茹でて食べる。
They boil and eat them pod and all.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)