捩 – screw, twist, wrench

10 strokesN2 vocabulary

The kanji 捩 means screw, twist, wrench, distort. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is レイ、レツ (rei, retsu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is よじ.る、ね.じる、ねじ.れる、もじ.る (yojiru, nejiru, nejireru, mojiru). It is written with 10 strokes, under radical 手 (no. 64).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	レイ	rei
On’yomi	レツ	retsu
Kun’yomi	よじ.る	yojiru
Kun’yomi	ね.じる	nejiru
Kun’yomi	ねじ.れる	nejireru
Kun’yomi	もじ.る	mojiru

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: 手 (Kangxi radical 64). Components: 戸・大・扎・一・尸.

Words using 捩

捩るねじるto twist捩れるねじれるto get twisted

Kanji with the same radical

手持指投打提挙援担技撃推接授摘批

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