黴 — 23 strokes / Radical「黑」
道1University / general (hardest) / 23 strokes / Radical「黑」
- On
- バイ・ビ・マイ・ミばい・び・まい・み · bai · bi · mai · mi
- Kun
- かび・かび.る・か.びるkabi · kabi.ru · ka.biru
- Meaning
- mould; mildew
Stroke order
Origin
Black 黒 with abbreviated 微 as phonetic: the black growth that comes with damp.
Compounds
- 黴かび
mould
- 黴菌ばいきん
germs
Example
梅雨に黴が生える。
Mould grows in the rainy season.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)