Entry
  1. Noun

    thicket; bush; coppice; brushwood

    猫は茂みに隠れていた。
    The cat lay hidden in the bushes.

Also written 繁み【しげみ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

overgrown, grow thick, be luxuriant

Kun
しげ.る
On
Strokes
8
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1188 of 2500
Radical
grass
WaniKani
Level 40

Built from

Used in names as

うむさつとむもて

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-3-5SKIP code
3k5.7The Kanji Dictionary
4425.3Four corner code
1959deroo
8302Unicode hex code
1-44-48JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3915Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4998New Nelson (John Haig)
2245New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2791Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1435Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1934Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
360Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
384Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1166A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
691Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1799Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
30833PMorohashi
1850A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1467Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1563Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1699Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1216Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1840Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
650Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
366Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
mao4Pinyin reading
muKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
40WaniKani level