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The kanji 絹: meaning, readings and stroke order

絹

Meaning
silk
On reading
ケン ken
Kun reading
きぬ kinu
Strokes
13
Radical
糸 silk
Level
Level 6 · grade 6

Stroke order

Stroke order of 絹, 13 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
lụa, tơ tằm (quyên)
Japanese
かいこの いとで できた ぬの。
Korean
비단 (견)
Chinese
丝绸、丝 (绢)

Readings, words and example sentences

ケン ken · on reading · less common

きぬ kinu · kun reading

Practise writing 絹 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 絹 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 6 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.