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

    to finger; to roll between the thumb and the fingers

    修道士のように頭巾をかぶった雲は、ポツリポツリと落ちる雨を数珠のようにつまぐっている。
    The hooded clouds, like friars, tell their beads in drops of rain.
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Characters in this word

2
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

winding, reel, spin, turn (pages), look up, refer to

Kun
く.る
On
ソウ
Strokes
19
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
872 of 2500
Radical
silk
WaniKani
Level 38

Built from

Used in names as

くり

Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
1-6-13SKIP code
6a13.3The Kanji Dictionary
2699.4Four corner code
2764deroo
7e70Unicode hex code
1-23-11JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3619Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4602New Nelson (John Haig)
1427New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1806Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
961Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1300Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1369Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1469Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1264A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1347Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
27953Morohashi
1190A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1654Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1768Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1652Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1918Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
902Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1563Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1381Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
qiao1, zao3Pinyin reading
joKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
38WaniKani level