塗 — paint, plaster, daub

ぬる塗 paint

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+5857 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1414 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1792 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

paint
plaster
daub
smear
coating

word

ぬ nu 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).

塗(ぬ) る nuru to paint 塗(ぬ) り nuri painting

と to On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

塗(と) 装(そう) tosou painting 塗(と) 料(りょう) toryou paint

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

涂 road

つち土 earth #32

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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.

#32 土 earth