Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

872 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 19

Meaning: winding, reel, spin, turn (pages), look up, refer to

Kunyomi: く.る

Onyomi: ソウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: silk

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ソウシ reeling (silk)

糸機 ソウシキ silk reeling machine

Kunyomi Examples

くる to reel, to wind, to spin (thread), to turn (pages), to flip through (a book), to leaf through (a book), to consult (a dictionary), to refer to (an encyclopedia), to count (e.g. the days), to open one-by-one, to close one-by-one (e.g. shutters)