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堤

JLPT N1 12 strokes Frequency: #1658

Meanings

Dike, Bank, Embankment

Radicals

土

Decomposition

⿰土是

Etymology

Pictophonetic: earth

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

3 rising bottom-left-to-top-right

4 vertical right-to-left

5 corner right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 vertical right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

12 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

テイ tei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

つつみ tsutsumi

Words Using This Kanji

22 words total

Other (20 words)

bank

bank

jetty

breakwater

banks of the Sumida river

築堤ちくてい

embankment

防潮堤ぼうちょうてい

tide embankment

堤を築くつつみをきずく

to build an embankment

堤防を築くていぼうをきずく

to construct an embankment

土堤どでい

embankment made of earth

雪堤せってい

snow mound

周堤墓しゅうていぼ

grave-site with circular embankment (Jomon period)

crest of dam

beach ridge

dam body

storm surge barrier

offshore breakwater

stone embankment

neural crest

breakwater

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