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On
ケン
Kun
にな
Meaning
river snail

Origin

ORIGIN

Insect 虫 with 卷 "to coil" as phonetic: the snail whose shell winds in a spiral.

Stroke order

STROKE ORDER

Compounds

COMPOUNDS

  • にな

    river snail

  • 蜷局とぐろ

    a coil (of a snake)

Example

EXAMPLE

A sentence using this kanji

石の陰で蛇が蜷局を巻いていた。

A snake lay coiled in the shadow of the rock.

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