EntryCommon
  1. Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb

    to do up (hair); to dress; to arrange

    彼女は髪を結ってもらうために美容院に行った。
    She went to the hairdresser's to have her hair done.
  2. to tie; to bind; to fasten; to make (a fence)

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

tie, bind, contract, join, organize, do up hair, fasten

Kun
むす.ぶゆ.うゆ.わえる
On
ケツケチ
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N1
Frequency
162 of 2500
Radical
silk
WaniKani
Level 17

Built from

Used in names as

ゆいゆう

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
1-6-6SKIP code
6a6.5The Kanji Dictionary
2496.1Four corner code
2777deroo
7d50Unicode hex code
1-23-75JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3540Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4492New Nelson (John Haig)
1348New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1706Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
912Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1235Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1351Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1451Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
163A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2151Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
359Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
27398Morohashi
472A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
485Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
494Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
390sakade
816Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
497henshall3
586Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
109crowley
302Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1532Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1363Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
jie2, jie1Pinyin reading
gyeolKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
17WaniKani level