The kanji 泥: meaning, readings and stroke order
泥
- Meaning
- mud
- On reading
- デイ dei
- Kun reading
- どろ doro
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 水 water
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- bùn (nê)
- Japanese
- どろ。みずで やわらかく なった つち。
- Korean
- 진흙 (니·이)
- Chinese
- 泥、泥巴
Readings, words and example sentences
デイ dei · on reading · less common
雲泥
a huge difference (like clouds and mud)
力の 差は 雲泥の 差です。
There is a world of difference in their skill.
どろ doro · kun reading
泥
mud
雨で くつが 泥だらけです。
My shoes are covered in mud from the rain.
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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.