Meanings

Corner, Nook

Radicals

阝

Decomposition

⿰阝禺

Etymology

Pictophonetic: place

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 corner top-left-to-bottom-right

2 unknown right-to-left

3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

4 vertical right-to-left

5 corner right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

10 vertical top-to-bottom

11 rising bottom-to-top

12 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

グウ guu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

すみ sumi

Words Using This Kanji

32 words total

Other (12 words)

重箱の隅をようじでほじくるじゅうばこのすみをようじでほじくる

to nitpick

left-hand corner

corner post

osumilite

hip (of roof)

lenticular bracket

Ōsumi (former province located in the east of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture, including the Amami Islands)

sumiotoshi (judo)

unimportant things

corner throw (judo)

iridocorneal angle

bent four in the corner

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