錵 — 15 strokes / Radical「金」
道1University / general (hardest) / 15 strokes / Radical「金」
- On
- カか · ka
- Kun
- にえnie
- Meaning
- the crystalline pattern on a blade (a character coined in Japan)
Stroke order
Origin
Coined in Japan from 金 and 花, a flower: the sparkling grain that appears along a sword’s edge.
Compounds
- 錵にえ
the grain on a blade
- 刃文はもん
the temper pattern of a blade
Example
刀の錵が美しく輝く。
The grain along the blade glitters beautifully.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)