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The kanji 縫: meaning, readings and stroke order

縫

Meaning
sew
On reading
ホウ hou
Kun reading
ぬ(う) nuu
Strokes
16
Radical
糸 silk
Level
Level 8 · the last years of junior high

Stroke order

Stroke order of 縫, 16 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
khâu, may (phùng)
Japanese
ぬう。はりと いとで つなぐ。
Korean
꿰매다, 바느질하다 (봉)
Chinese
缝、缝补 (缝)

Readings, words and example sentences

ホウ hou · on reading · less common

ぬ(う) nuu · kun reading

Practise writing 縫 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 縫 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.