縄
rope; straw rope; cord
15 strokes. Taught in grade 4. Newspaper frequency rank 1075.
Readings
- なわ (kun reading): 沖縄 (おきなわ) Okinawa (city, prefecture); 沖縄県 (おきなわけん) Okinawa Prefecture
- ジョウ (on reading): 縄文時代 (じょうもんじだい) Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE); 縄文 (じょうもん) straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware
- ただす (kun reading)
Components
- 糸
- 电
- 乙 radical second; fishhook
- 勹 radical wrap
- 小 radical small
- 幺 radical short thread
- 田 radical rice field
- 糸 radical thread
- 亀 radical turtle
Words using 縄
- 沖縄 (おきなわ) Okinawa (city, prefecture)
- 沖縄県 (おきなわけん) Okinawa Prefecture
- 縄 (なわ) rope
- 縄張り (なわばり) stretching a rope around
- 沖縄戦 (おきなわせん) Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)
- 縄文時代 (じょうもんじだい) Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
- 縄文 (じょうもん) straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware
- 縄文土器 (じょうもんどき) straw rope-patterned ancient Japanese pottery
- 結縄 (けつじょう) knotted cord or rope
- 続縄文時代 (ぞくじょうもんじだい) post-Jōmon period (mainly Hokkaido; 3rd to 7th century BCE)
100 words in all.