泥 — mud, mire, adhere to

どろ泥 mud

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+6CE5 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1589 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1135 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

mud
mire
adhere to
be attached to

word

とろ・どろ toro 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).

泥(どろ) doro mud 泥(どろ) 棒(ぼう) dorobou thief

Appears in idioms

嘘つきは泥棒の始まり諺

A liar is the beginning of a thief

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

あま尼 nun

Open in Atlas

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.

#85 水 water

泥 — mud, mire, adhere to

Meanings

word

とろ・どろ toro 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).

Appears in idioms

Stroke order

Components

Composed of

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.

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Send feedback

泥 — mud, mire, adhere to

Meanings

word

とろ ・どろ toro 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).

Appears in idioms

Stroke order

Components

Composed of

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.

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

とろ・どろ toro 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).