Kanji

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: manufacture paper, spread out thin, strain, percolate

Kunyomi: こ.し こ.す す.く

Onyomi: ロク

Composition: 鹿

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: water

Examples

Kunyomi Examples

こしあぶら Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

油の木 こしあぶらのき Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

こす to filter, to strain

梳く すく to comb (out), to card, to untangle (hair)

すく to make something (e.g. paper) from wet, pulpy material by spreading it thin and drying it