Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

糾: twist, ask

Also: investigate, verify

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

糸 carries the meaning · 丩 gives the sound

9 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

キュウkyuu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 紛糾ふんきゅうcomplication; confusion; disorder
  • 糾弾きゅうだんcensure; denunciation; (verbal) attack
  • 糾合きゅうごうrally; muster

Also read ただす, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Everything is connected! This radical represents the invisible threads that tie us together—our relationships, the fine "silk" of our words, and the intricate weaving of our personal histories.”
More in the 糸 thread story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
糸

Also built on thread (糸)

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丩

Also built on 丩

糾 takes the 丩 family's reading, キュウ (kyuu).

Also read キュウ

28 kanji share this on'yomiAll 28

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
糾 twist · 丩
vs紅 crimson · 工
糾 has 丩 where 紅 has 工.
In ChineseSimplified 纠 · traditional, as in Japanese · jiū

Japan keeps the traditional form 糾; mainland China simplifies it to 纠.

Simplified
纠 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
糾 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jiū most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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