Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N1

1807 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: intestines, guts, bowels, viscera

Kunyomi: はらわた わた

Onyomi: チョウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にくづき

Meaning: meat

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

(ちょう)   guts, bowels, intestines

炎(ちょうえん)   enteritis

(いちょう)   stomach, intestines

(だいちょう)   colon

(しょうちょう)   small intestine

(もうちょう)   appendix, caecum

の思い(だんちょうのおもい)   heartrending grief

Onyomi Examples

チョウ guts, bowels, intestines

チョウエン enteritis

ダイチョウ large intestine, large bowel, colon

イチョウ stomach and intestines, gastrointestinal tract, digestive organs

Kunyomi Examples

ちょう guts, bowels, intestines

はらわたが煮えくり返る はらわたがにえくりかえる to be furious, to seethe with anger, to have one's blood boiling

ちょう guts, bowels, intestines

わたか Ischikauia steenackeri (species of cyprinid fish)

だいちょう large intestine, large bowel, colon

背わた せわた vein of a shrimp (prawn), digestive tract of a shrimp, sand vein