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塗
JLPT N2 13 strokes Frequency: #1414

Meanings

Paint, Plaster, Daub, Smear, Coating

Radicals

土

Decomposition

⿱涂土

Etymology

Pictophonetic: water

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-left
2 dot bottom-to-top
3 rising bottom-to-top
4 diagonal right-to-left
5 diagonal right-to-left
6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
8 hook bottom-right-to-top-left
9 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
10 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
11 horizontal bottom-to-top
12 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
13 horizontal bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ト to
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
ぬ nu
まみ mami

Words Using This Kanji

99 words total
Other (20 words)
泥を塗る どろをぬる

to besmirch

木目塗 もくめぬり

graining (lacquering technique)

地塗り じぬり

undercoating

恥の上塗り はじのうわぬり

piling shame on top of shame

根来塗り ねごろぬり

Negoro lacquerware

春慶塗 しゅんけいぬり

Shunkei lacquerware

白塗り しろぬり

something painted white

塗り広げる ぬりひろげる

to spread

塗油 とゆ

anointing

塗板 とばん

blackboard

刷毛塗り はけぬり

brush application

病者の塗油 びょうしゃのとゆ

Anointing of the Sick

厚塗り あつぬり

thickly painted

薄塗り うすぬり

thinly painted

絶縁塗料 ぜつえんとりょう

(electrical) insulating coating

黒塗りメイク くろぬりメイク

blackface

塗 みどろ

covered with

塗り刷毛 ぬりばけ

paintbrush

中塗り土 なかぬりつち

clay, straw, etc. mix used for intermediary wall coating

塗工紙 とこうし

coated paper

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