粘 — sticky, glutinous, greasy

ねばる粘 sticky

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes

U+7C98 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1410 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #989 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

sticky
glutinous
greasy
persevere

word

ねば neba 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).

粘(ねば) る nebaru to be sticky

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

粘(ねん) 土(ど) nendo clay

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

こめ米 rice #119

うらなう占 fortune-telling

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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.

#119 米 rice