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Kanji Detail for 紋 - "pattern, crest, emblem"
紋
- Meaning
紋 means "pattern, crest, emblem."
Pattern - Designs on woven fabric.
Lines - Wrinkles; streaks; things with wrinkles.
Crest - Family emblem; a symbol representing a family.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
family crest; figures
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
line, streak, stripe; wrinkle
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
line, stripe; pattern, decoration; wrinkle
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Patterns on brocade. Now generally, wrinkle marks on things are all called 紋. Such as 波紋 (ripples), 冰紋 (ice patterns). | 紋銀. Refers to silver cast into ingots. With fine patterns. Colloquially also abbreviated as 紋.
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
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