茨 — briar, thorn

いばら茨 briar

いばら

U+8328 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1203 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #511 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

briar
thorn

Readings

On'yomi: し shi じ ji
Kun'yomi: いばら ibara かや kaya くさぶき kusabuki

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いばら ibara 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).

茨(いばら) 城(き) ibaraki Ibaraki (prefecture)

Words by frequency and grade

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Each dot is a word containing 茨: 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

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

艹 grass

つぎ次 next

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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.

#140 艸 grass