The kanji 茎: meaning, readings and stroke order

茎

Meaning: stem, stalk
On reading: ケイ kei
Kun reading: くき kuki
Strokes: 8
Radical: 艸 grass
Level: Level 9 · senior high school
Old form: 莖

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: thân cây, cuống (hành)
Japanese: くき。はやはなをささえるぶぶん。
Korean: 줄기 (경)
Chinese: 茎、梗

Readings, words and example sentences

ケイ kei · on reading · less common

地ち下か茎けい
underground stem
じゃがいもは 地ち下か茎けいです。
A potato is an underground stem.

くき kuki · kun reading

茎くき
stem
花の 茎くきを切ります。
I cut the flower's stem.

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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.