| Kanji | 陶 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | トウ |
| Nanori | す, すえ |
| English | pottery, porcelain |
| Examples | 陶器(とうき): porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics; crockery 鬱陶しい(うっとうしい): (1) gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing (2) heavy (weather); cloudy (3) irritating; troublesome |
| JLPT Level | 1 |
| Jouyou Grade | S |
| Frequency | 1680 |
| Components | 阜: hill; mound; left village radical (no. 170) 勹: wrapping enclosure; wrapping radical (no. 20) 缶: tin can; container; jar radical (no. 121) |
| Number of Strokes | 11 |
| Kanji Radical | 阜 |
| Radical Number | 170 |
| Radical Strokes | 8 |
| Radical Reading | こざと・こざとへん・おか・ぎふのふ |
| Traditional Form | (none) |
| Classification | 形声 Phonetic |
| Keyword | pottery |
| Koohii Story 1 | Pottery is used for food preservation, the pinnacle of which today is food bound up in tin cans. |
| Koohii Story 2 | This chinese man was making the best china pottery in all of ... China. For some reason he insisted on working at the top of a pinnacle, away from the distractions of the world. He kept in touch with the local people, and took orders, through bound tin cans (tin cans bound with rope, the children's version of the telephone). |
| RTK Index | 1966 |
Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1501-2000, kanji_manufactured.item
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