蜷 — 14 strokes / Radical「虫」
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- On
- ケン
- Kun
- にな
- Meaning
- river snail
Origin
Insect 虫 with 卷 "to coil" as phonetic: the snail whose shell winds in a spiral.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 蜷にな
river snail
- 蜷局とぐろ
a coil (of a snake)
Example
石の陰で蛇が蜷局を巻いていた。
A snake lay coiled in the shadow of the rock.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)