The kanji 血: meaning, readings and stroke order

血

Meaning: blood
On reading: ケツ ketsu
Kun reading: ち chi
Strokes: 6
Radical: 血 blood
Level: Level 3 · grade 3

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: máu (huyết)
Japanese: ち。
Korean: 피 (혈)
Chinese: 血

Readings, words and example sentences

ケツ ketsu · on reading · less common

出しゅっ血けつ
bleeding
けがをして 出しゅっ血けつしました。
I got hurt and bled.

ち chi · kun reading

血ち
blood
指を切って血ちが出ました。
I cut my finger and it bled.

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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.