EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Noun

    thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

    Food, cooking

    若いときは貧乏でかゆをすすって暮らした。
    When he was young, he was so poor that he virtually had to live on gruel.
  2. breakfast (in Zen temples)

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

rice gruel

Kun
かゆかいひさ.ぐ
On
イクシュクジュク
Strokes
12
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2280 of 2500
Radical
rice

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-3-9SKIP code
3h9.1The Kanji Dictionary
1722.7Four corner code
7ca5Unicode hex code
1-20-01JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1574Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4402New Nelson (John Haig)
698Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
525Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2243Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2349Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
26938Morohashi
zhou1, yu4Pinyin reading
jug, yug, gugKorean reading