The kanji 編: meaning, readings and stroke order

編

Meaning: knit, edit
On reading: ヘン hen
Kun reading: あ（む） amu
Strokes: 15
Radical: 糸 silk
Level: Level 5 · grade 5

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: đan, biên tập (biên)
Japanese: あむ。あつめてまとめる。
Korean: 뜨개질하다, 엮다 (편)
Chinese: 编织、编辑 (编)

Readings, words and example sentences

ヘン hen · on reading

編へん集しゅう
editing
学級新聞を 編へん集しゅうします。
We edit the class newspaper.

あ（む） amu · kun reading

編あむ
to knit
毛糸でマフラーを 編あみます。
I knit a scarf with yarn.

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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.