Dino Kids

The kanji 墨: meaning, readings and stroke order

墨

Meaning
ink, ink stick
On reading
ボク boku
Kun reading
すみ sumi
Strokes
14
Radical
土 earth
Level
Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Old form
墨

Stroke order

Stroke order of 墨, 14 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
mực tàu (mặc)
Japanese
すみ。しゅうじに つかう くろい もの。
Korean
먹 (묵)
Chinese
墨、墨汁

Readings, words and example sentences

ボク boku · on reading · less common

すみ sumi · kun reading

Practise writing 墨 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 墨 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

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.