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索

JLPT N1 10 strokes Frequency: #1127

Meanings

Cord, Rope, Searching, Inquiring

Radicals

糸

Decomposition

⿱⿱十冖糸

Etymology

Ideographic: A rope 糸 hanging from the ceiling 冖

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 10

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical right-to-left

3 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

4 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

5 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

6 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

7 dot top-left-to-bottom-right

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 diagonal bottom-to-top

10 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

サク saku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

151 words total

Other (20 words)

検索けんさく

looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

鋼索こうさく

steel cable

索引さくいん

index (in a book)

索敵さくてき

searching for the enemy

rigging

cableway

cable

cable railway

rope

boring

speculation

subject index

search (esp. for someone or something missing)

word search

search tree

groping (for)

cable

index listing kanji by their Chinese and Japanese pronunciations

家宅捜索かたくそうさく

house search (e.g. by the police)

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