蜑 — 13 strokes / Radical「虫」
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- On
- タン
- Kun
- あま
- Meaning
- a boat-dwelling people; a diver
Origin
Insect 虫 with 延 as phonetic: the southern people who lived on the water; in Japan, a diver.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 蜑あま
a diver
- 海女あま
the usual writing
Example
蜑が海に潜って貝を採る。
The diver goes down and gathers shellfish.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)