刃 – blade, sword, edge

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The kanji 刃 means blade, sword, edge. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ジン、ニン (jin, nin); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is は、やいば、き.る (wa, yaiba, kiru). It is written with 3 strokes, under radical 刀 (no. 18).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ジン	jin
On’yomi	ニン	nin
Kun’yomi	は	wa
Kun’yomi	やいば	yaiba
Kun’yomi	き.る	kiru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 刀 (Kangxi radical 18). Components: 刀・丶.

Words using 刃

刃はedge (of a knife or sword)

Example sentences

私のナイフの刃は、とても鋭い。

My knife has such a fine edge.

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Kanji with the same radical

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Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.