Entry
  1. Noun

    swamp morning glory (Ipomoea aquatica); water spinach; river spinach; kangkong; Chinese spinach; Chinese Watercress; Chinese convolvulus; swamp cabbage

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 甕菜【ようさい】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

softening, mitigation

Kun
ふさ.ぐやわら.ぐ
On
ヨウ
Strokes
13
Radical
short-tailed bird

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (10)
CodeReference
2-2-11SKIP code
2j11.1The Kanji Dictionary
0071.0Four corner code
96cdUnicode hex code
1-80-22JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6503New Nelson (John Haig)
2359Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
42000Morohashi
yong1Pinyin reading
ongKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

vegetable, side dish, greens

Kun
On
サイ
Strokes
11
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1327 of 2500
Radical
grass
WaniKani
Level 31

Built from

Used in names as

よう

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-3-8SKIP code
3k8.25The Kanji Dictionary
4490.4Four corner code
1964deroo
83dcUnicode hex code
1-26-58JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3982Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5097New Nelson (John Haig)
2305New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2880Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1486Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2004Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
734Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
793Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1108A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
870Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
31184PMorohashi
483A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
931Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
958Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
401sakade
246Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
509henshall3
566Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
774Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
660Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
742Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
cai4Pinyin reading
chaeKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
31WaniKani level