Entry
  1. Noun

    claws and fangs; claws and tusks

  2. clutches; devious design; means of causing harm; weapon

  3. pawn; stooge; cat's-paw

  4. right-hand man

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

claw, nail, talon

Kun
つめつま-
On
ソウ
Strokes
4
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2025 of 2500
Radical
claw
WaniKani
Level 34

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (20)
CodeReference
3-3-1SKIP code
0a4.9The Kanji Dictionary
7223.0Four corner code
722aUnicode hex code
1-36-62JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2822Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3509New Nelson (John Haig)
3024New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3756Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2605Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
727Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
784Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
115Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1887Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
19653Morohashi
1320Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
735Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhua3, zhao3Pinyin reading
joKorean reading
34WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

tusk, fang, tusk radical (no. 92)

Kun
きば
On
Strokes
5
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2067 of 2500
Radical
fang
WaniKani
Level 36

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (18)
CodeReference
4-4-1, 3-3-1SKIP code
0a4.28The Kanji Dictionary
1024.0, 7124.0Four corner code
7259Unicode hex code
1-18-71JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2848Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3531New Nelson (John Haig)
3435New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4243Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2891Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1904Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2053Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
19909Morohashi
1548Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1923Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ya2Pinyin reading
aKorean reading
36WaniKani level