Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Transitive verb

    to sum up; to summarize; to summarise

    Usually written using kana aloneusu. as かいつまんで

    かいつまんで話せば、すべてがうまく行った。
    To make a long story short, everything went fine.

Also written 搔い摘む【かいつまむ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

scratch, rake, comb, paddle, behead

Kun
か.く
On
ソウ
Strokes
11
Radical
hand

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
1-3-8SKIP code
3c10.11The Kanji Dictionary
5703.6Four corner code
63bbUnicode hex code
1-33-63JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1980Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2175New Nelson (John Haig)
619Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2252Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2356Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
12477XMorohashi
sao1Pinyin reading
soKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pinch, pick, pluck, trim, clip, summarize

Kun
つ.む
On
テキ
Strokes
14
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
564 of 2500
Radical
hand
WaniKani
Level 36

Built from

Used in names as

つむ

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
1-3-11SKIP code
3c11.5The Kanji Dictionary
5002.7Four corner code
1349deroo
6458Unicode hex code
1-37-06JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1987Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2266New Nelson (John Haig)
694New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
851Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
490Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
629Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
657Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
709Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1065A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2066Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1600Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
12582Morohashi
1625A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1447Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1540Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1379Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1706Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1256Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
924Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
664Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhai1, zhe2Pinyin reading
jeogKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
36WaniKani level