The kanji 堤: meaning, readings and stroke order
堤
- Meaning
- bank, levee
- On reading
- テイ tei
- Kun reading
- つつみ tsutsumi
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 土 earth
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- đê, bờ đê (đê)
- Japanese
- つつみ。かわの どて。
- Korean
- 둑, 제방 (제)
- Chinese
- 堤坝、堤
Readings, words and example sentences
テイ tei · on reading · less common
堤防
embankment, levee
川の 堤防を 直します。
They repair the river embankment.
つつみ tsutsumi · kun reading · less common
堤
bank, embankment
堤の 上を 歩きます。
I walk along the top of the bank.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.