EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    moss

    Usually written using kana alone

    転がる石には苔がつかない。
    A rolling stone gathers no moss.
  2. short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 蘚【こけ】蘿【こけ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

moss, lichen

Kun
こけこけら
On
タイ
Strokes
8
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
grass

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-3-5, 2-4-5SKIP code
3k5.27The Kanji Dictionary
4460.3Four corner code
82d4Unicode hex code
1-34-61JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3921Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5001New Nelson (John Haig)
2792Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1935Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2356Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2443Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
929Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
30778XMorohashi
tai2, tai1Pinyin reading
taeKorean reading