EntryJLPT N1
  1. Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

    common reed (Phragmites australis)

    Usually written using kana alone

    人間は一本のアシに過ぎず、その本性はきわめて弱いが、人間は考える葦である。
    Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Also written 蘆【あし】葭【あし】芦【あし】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

reed, bullrush

Kun
あしよししお.れるしな.びるしぼ.むな.える
On
Strokes
13
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2343 of 2500
Radical
grass

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-3-10, 2-4-9SKIP code
3k10.21The Kanji Dictionary
4450.6Four corner code
8466Unicode hex code
1-16-17JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3998Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5160New Nelson (John Haig)
2934Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2041Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2411Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2491Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1992Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
31437Morohashi
wei3Pinyin reading
wiKorean reading