Kanji

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: lever

Kunyomi: てこ つえ

Onyomi: チョウ テイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: tree

Examples

Onyomi Examples

チョウ counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars

インテイ clitoris

Kunyomi Examples

てこ lever, agent (causing something to happen), instrument, force, assistant, helper

手こずる てこずる to have much trouble, to have a hard time, to not know how to handle

かなてこ crowbar

変てこ へんてこ strange, weird, odd, strange thing, strange person