The kanji 隅: meaning, readings and stroke order
隅
- Meaning
- corner, nook
- On reading
- グウ guu
- Kun reading
- すみ sumi
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 阜 mound, dam
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- góc (ngung)
- Japanese
- すみ。かどの ところ。
- Korean
- 구석, 모퉁이 (우)
- Chinese
- 角落
Readings, words and example sentences
グウ guu · on reading · less common
一隅
a corner
部屋の 一隅に 花を 置きます。
I put flowers in one corner of the room.
すみ sumi · kun reading
隅
corner
へやの 隅まで そうじします。
I clean every corner of the room.
Practise writing 隅 in the app
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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.