綱 — hawser, class, rope

つな綱 hawser

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+7DB1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1053 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2114 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

hawser
class
rope
cord
cable

word

つな tsuna 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).

綱(つな) tsuna rope

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

大(たい) 綱(こう) taikou outline 綱(こう) 領(りょう) kouryou platform 要(よう) 綱(こう) youkou outline

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いと糸 thread #120

おか岡 mount

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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