Kanji Detail for 葛 - "kudzu, vine, tangle"

葛

Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
葛 means "kudzu, vine, tangle."
1. Kudzu - A climbing vine plant.
2. Arrowroot - A starchy plant used in cooking.
3. Tangle - To become intertwined or complicated.
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

kachi(カチ)

katsu(カツ)
Kunyomi

kuzu(くず)

tsudura(つでゅら)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
kudzu vine arrowroot climbing plant tangle intertwine weave cloth fabric creeper hardy resilient tenacious versatile useful starch food medicine natural