Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

918 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: bundle, sheaf, ream, tie in bundles, govern, manage, control

Kunyomi: たば たば.ねる つか つか.ねる

Onyomi: ソク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

する(やくそくする)   promise [v.t.]

する(けっそくする)   band together, unite

縛する(そくばくする)   restrain, bind, shackle

ねる(たばねる)   bundle [v.t.]

(はなたば)   bouquet

(さつたば)   roll of banknotes

*の間(つかのま)   brief moment

Onyomi Examples

ソク lattice, counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish), handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)

ソクバク restraint, restriction, fetters, yoke, shackles, binding, confinement with rope

ケッソク union, unity, solidarity, bundling, binding, tying, putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)

口約 クチヤクソク verbal promise, one's word

Kunyomi Examples

たば bundle, bunch, sheaf

ねる たばねる to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)

かぎたば bunch of keys

むぎたば wheat sheaf, stacked wheat

ねる たばねる to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)

つか strut, short vertical post, thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.), handbreadth, bundle

ねる たばねる to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)

ふつつか inexperienced, incompetent, inept, incapable, careless

やつか arrow length, bundle of arrows

ねる たばねる to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)