索 — cord, rope, searching

さく索 cord

さく

U+7D22 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1127 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1465 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

cord
rope
searching
inquiring

Readings

On'yomi: さく saku

word

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

検(けん) 索(さく) kensaku search 模(も) 索(さく) mosaku groping 捜(そう) 索(さく) sousaku search 探(たん) 索(さく) tansaku search 索(さく) 引(いん) sakuin index

Words by frequency and grade

5 words

Each dot is a word containing 索: 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

Appears in idioms

暗中模索四字熟語

dark middle, grope search

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

じゅう十 ten #24

冖 cover

いと糸 thread #120

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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.

#120 糸 thread