蚕 — silkworm | MojiMori

かいこ蚕 silkworm

かいこ

U+8695 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2272 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #562 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

silkworm

Readings

On'yomi: さん san てん ten
Kun'yomi: かいこ kaiko こ ko

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かいこ kaiko 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).

蚕(かいこ) kaiko silkworm

Words by frequency and grade

1 word

Each dot is a word containing 蚕: 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 · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

てん天 heaven

むし虫 insect #142

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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.

#142 虫 insect