巣 — nest, rookery, hive

す巣 nest

す

U+5DE3 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1588 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2077 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

nest
rookery
hive
cobweb
den

Readings

On'yomi: そう sou
Kun'yomi: す su

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す su Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

巣(す) su nest 古(ふる) 巣(す) furusu old haunts

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 巣: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ちいさい小 little #42

か果 fruit

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#47 巛 river