Kanji

Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Stroke count: 21

Meaning: wear, wrap, tie, follow around, collect

Kunyomi: まつ.わる まと.う まと.める まと.まる まと.い

Onyomi: テン デン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: silk

Examples

Onyomi Examples

テンジョウ twining around, entangling

テンソク foot-binding

ハンテン traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets, livery coat, half the sky, mid-air, middle of the sky

ねんねこ半 ネンネコバンテン short, padded coat that covers someone and a baby on their back

Kunyomi Examples

わる まつわる to coil around, to follow about, to be related to, to concern, to be associated with

まとう to put on, to wear, to be clad in, to twine around, to twist around, to coil around

める まとめる to collect, to put (it all) together, to integrate, to consolidate, to unify, to summarize, to aggregate, to bring to a conclusion, to finalize, to settle, to put in order, to establish, to decide

まる まとまる to find resolution, to be settled, to be agreed on, to be completed, to be collected, to be assembled, to be brought together, to be well arranged, to be in order, to be unified, to take shape, to be coherent

まとい battle standard decorated with hanging strips of paper or leather, fireman's standard (Edo period)

いつく まといつく to entwine, to follow about