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Kanji Detail for 葛 - "arrowroot, vine"

葛

  • Meaning

    葛 means "arrowroot, vine." Also associated with tangle.

    1. Kudzu - A climbing vine plant.

    2. Arrowroot - A starchy plant used in cooking.

    3. Tangle - To become intertwined or complicated.

  • Words using 葛

    • 葛藤 かっとう Listen conflict; complication; troubles

  • Tattoo check: 葛

    • Verified meaning: arrowroot, vine
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read かく, かずら, かつ, かつら)
    • Also carries these associations: tangle

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 葛

    Given names 葛(かずら)Listen 葛(かつら)Listen 葛(くず)Listen

    Surnames 葛(かく)Listen 葛(かつ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    arrowroot; kudzu

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    edible bean; surname

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Ge

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    an edible bean; vine; surname

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A plant name. Stems are slender and vine-like. Leaves are compound. Flowers are purple-red. Fruit forms pods. Root is purple outside and white inside. Used in medicine. Can also make kudzu powder. The fiber of the stem can be woven into kudzu cloth. In ancient times, summer cloth was mostly made from this. Therefore summer clothes are also called 葛. Since kudzu vines tangle together, affairs that are complicated and hard to sort out are called 糾葛 (entanglement), 瓜葛 (connection), 膠葛 (sticky entanglement).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kachi(カチ) カチ

    katsu(カツ) カツ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kuzu(くず) くず

    tsudura(つでゅら) つでゅら

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

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    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    arrowroot tangle vine kudzu climbing complicated cooking flora herbal medicine intertwined noodles plant starch

Sentences including 葛

  • Kasai was credited with 30 saves.

  • He seems not to be aware of the conflict between my father and me.

  • The heart of the tragedy, as of a short story, is a conflict.

  • That there are various conflicts, frictions, within the races of man is a point made clear within this book as well.

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