The Kanji Map

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: 糸喿

繰

Radical

Radical: 糸

Meaning: silk

Reading: いと

Frequency: 823

Alternative forms:

(

)糹

糸

Examples

Onyomi Examples

繰糸（ソウシ） reeling (silk)

繰糸機（ソウシキ） silk reeling machine

Kunyomi Examples

繰る（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)