EntryCommonJLPT N2
  1. Godan verb with 'gu' ending, Transitive verb

    to sniff; to smell

    犬は見知らぬ人の匂いをかいだ。
    The dog sniffed at the stranger.
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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

smell, sniff, scent

Kun
か.ぐ
On
キュウ
Strokes
13
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2480 of 2500
Radical
mouth

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-3-10SKIP code
3d10.3The Kanji Dictionary
6603.4Four corner code
55c5Unicode hex code
1-51-44JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
973Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
871New Nelson (John Haig)
772Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
576Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4048Morohashi
1311Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
xiu4Pinyin reading
huKorean reading