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菌

JLPT N1 11 strokes Frequency: #1586

Meanings

Germ, Fungus, Bacteria

Radicals

艹

Decomposition

⿱艹囷

Etymology

Pictophonetic: plant

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

5 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

6 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 dot top-left-to-bottom-right

11 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

キン kin

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

233 words total

Other (20 words)

真正細菌しんせいさいきん

bacteria

古細菌こさいきん

archaea

日和見菌ひよりみきん

opportunistic pathogen

セラチア菌セラチアきん

Serratia marcescens

菌血症きんけつしょう

bacteremia

抗菌剤こうきんざい

antimicrobial

腸管出血性大腸菌ちょうかんしゅっけつせいだいちょうきん

enterohemorrhagic E. coli

腸詰め菌ちょうづめきん

Clostridium botulinum (bacteria that causes botulism)

連鎖球菌れんさきゅうきん

streptococcus

食中毒菌しょくちゅうどくきん

bacteria capable of causing food poisoning

ピロリ菌ピロリきん

Helicobacter pylori

納豆菌なっとうきん

natto bacteria (Bacillus subtilis var. natto)

乳酸菌飲料にゅうさんきんいんりょう

fermented milk drink (e.g. Yakult, Calpis, Calpico)

myxomycete

Zygomycota

myxomycete

basidiomycete

actinomycete

Deuteromycota

coccus

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