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Rope
Stroke count: 15

Readings

On readingジョウ
Kun readingなわ

Meanings

  1. rope
  2. cord
  3. straw ropeRtK
  1. policeman's rope

Synonyms

ロープ

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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thread (糸) · spiderman · eels · sun (日) · day (日)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1477

Compound words

彼は縄で木に縛り付けられた。
He was tied to the tree with a rope.tatoeba
彼は今まで沖縄へ行ったことがない。
He has never been to Okinawa before.tatoeba
彼は沖縄への旅行を延期しました。
He put off his trip to Okinawa.tatoeba
彼は一筋縄ではいかない。
He is hard to deal with.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

およそこの言葉という縄をとび越えるほど厄介なことはない
およそこのことばというなわをとびこえるほどやっかいなことはないThere is nothing more troublesome than jumping over this rope called words.
沖縄県うるま市
おきなわけんうるましUruma City, Okinawa Prefecture.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

15 strokes

Rope. 糸 (thread) + 电 — a cord twisted from threads. 縄文 — Jōmon period.

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