爪 — claw, nail, talon

つめ爪 claw

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes

U+722A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2025 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #784 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #87 爫

Meanings

claw
nail
talon

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つめ tsume 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).

爪(つめ) tsume nail

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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.

#87 爪 claw kanmuri 爫 top

爪 — claw, nail, talon

Meanings

word

つめ tsume 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).

Stroke order

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.

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