薔
water pepper
16 strokes. Newspaper frequency rank 2356.
Readings
- バ (on reading): 薔薇 (ばら) rose; 薔薇戦争 (ばらせんそう) War of the Roses (1455-1485)
- ショウ (on reading)
- ショク (on reading)
- ソウ (on reading): 冬薔薇 (ふゆそうび) winter rose
- みずたで (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 綺麗な薔薇には棘がある (きれいなばらにはとげがある) there is no rose without a thorn
Components
- 艹
- 嗇
- 人 radical person
- 口 radical mouth
- 囗 radical enclosure
- 土 radical earth
- ⺾ radical grass, top form of 艸
Words using 薔
- 薔薇 (ばら) rose
- 薔薇戦争 (ばらせんそう) War of the Roses (1455-1485)
- 薔薇族 (ばらぞく) Barazoku (gay men's magazine; 1971-2011)
- 薔薇十字団 (ばらじゅうじだん) Rosicrucian
- 薔薇の名前 (ばらのなまえ) The Name of the Rose (1980 novel by Umberto Eco)
- 冬薔薇 (ふゆそうび) winter rose
- 綺麗な薔薇には棘がある (きれいなばらにはとげがある) there is no rose without a thorn
10 words in all.