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螺 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「虫」

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準1University / general ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「虫」
On
ラら · ra
Kun
にし・になnishi · nina
Meaning
spiral shell

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Insect 虫 with 累 as phonetic: the shell wound in a spiral.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 螺旋らせん

    spiral; helix

  • 法螺ほら

    conch; tall tale

More words with this kanji

  • 螺鈿らでん

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

塔(とう)の螺旋(らせん)階段(かいだん)を上(のぼ)っていった。

We climbed the spiral staircase of the tower.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

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