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stripe
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingコウ
Kun readingしま、しろぎぬ
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. stripeRtK
    あのグリーンの縞のシャツ、今洗濯してるん？Is that green striped shirt in the wash?tatoeba
    縞柄の服で彼女のほっそりした姿が目立つ。Her striped dress accentuates her slimness.tatoeba
  1. bar
  2. streak
  3. (weaved) stripe pattern (of 2 or more different colors)

Homonyms

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Same reading (しま)
島 · island

Radicals and components

Radical糸silk纟variant
Components
How it's built
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Compound words

横縞よこじま
horizontal stripes
縞鯵しまあじ
striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex)
縞蛇しまへび
Japanese four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quadrivirgata)
縞馬シマウマ
zebra
縞鰺しまあじ
striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex)
縦縞たてじま
vertical stripes
竪縞たてじま
vertical stripes
棒縞ぼうじま
stripes
立縞たてじま
vertical stripes
格子縞こうしじま
check(ed) pattern
碁盤縞ごばんじま
check
縞浮鮴しまうきごり
Gymnogobius opperiens (var. of goby)
縞瑪瑙しまめのう
onyx
縞秧鶏しまくいな
Swinhoe's yellow rail (Porzana exquisita)
縞蚯蚓シマミミズ
brandling (Eisenia fetida)
弁慶縞べんけいじま
checks
強弩の末魯縞に入る能わずきょうどのすえろこうにいるあたわず
even the strong will grow weak

Stroke Order

16 strokes

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