Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to knead thoroughly; to work up

    パーティーを欠席した言い訳に作り話をこねあげた。
    I concocted an excuse for missing the party.
  2. to concoct; to make up

Also written こね上げる【こねあげる】

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Characters in this word

2
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knead, mix

Kun
こ.ねるね.るつく.ねる
On
ネツテツネチ
Strokes
10
Radical
hand

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (11)
CodeReference
1-3-7SKIP code
3c7.6The Kanji Dictionary
5601.4Four corner code
634fUnicode hex code
1-57-52JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1905Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2165New Nelson (John Haig)
2353Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
12149Morohashi
nie1Pinyin reading
nalKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

above, up

Kun
うえ-うえうわ-かみあ.げる-あ.げるあ.がる-あ.がるあ.がり-あ.がりのぼ.るのぼ.りのぼ.せるのぼ.すたてまつ.る
On
ジョウショウシャン
Strokes
3
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
35 of 2500
Radical
one
WaniKani
Level 1

Built from

Used in names as

あおいあげかきかずかんこうのぼりほつ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-3-2SKIP code
2m1.1The Kanji Dictionary
2110.0Four corner code
1272deroo
4e0aUnicode hex code
1-30-69JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
798Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
10New Nelson (John Haig)
3404New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4212Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2128Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2876Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
49Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
50Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
21A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
47Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
29Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
13Morohashi
37A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
32Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
20sakade
5Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
23henshall3
12Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
29crowley
31Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.14busy_people
6Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
49Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
shang4, shang3Pinyin reading
sangKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
1WaniKani level