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蝦 — 15 strokes ／ Radical「虫」

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On
カ・ゲか・げ · ka · ge
Kun
えびebi
Meaning
shrimp; prawn

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

The insect radical with 叚 as phonetic: the shelled creature that lives in water — the shrimp.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 蝦えび

    shrimp; prawn

  • 蝦夷えぞ

    Ezo (old name for Hokkaido)

More words with this kanji

  • 蝦蟇がま

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

鍋(なべ)に蝦(えび)をたっぷり入(い)れた。

I put plenty of prawns into the hot pot.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

蝦夷蝦夷barbar…虻horsef…蚤flea蛋egg蛭leech蛤hard…禾grain…瓜melon伽attend…茄eggpla…迦used…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 虫Map of reading カAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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