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Kanji Detail for 腸 - "intestine, gut, heart"

腸

  • Meaning

    腸 means "intestine, gut, heart."

    1. Intestine - The digestive organ.

    2. Gut - The bowels.

    3. Heart - Inner feelings; sentiment.

  • Words using 腸

    • 大腸 だいちょう Listen large intestine; large bowel; colon
    • 胃腸 いちょう Listen stomach and intestines; gastrointestinal tract; digestive organs
    • 大腸菌 だいちょうきん Listen Escherichia coli (E. coli); colon bacterium
    • 盲腸 もうちょう Listen cecum; caecum; blind gut

  • Four-character idioms with 腸

    • 鉄心石腸 てっしんせきちょう Listen will of iron

  • Tattoo check: 腸

    • Verified meaning: intestine, gut, heart
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いかりや, ちょう)

    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 腸

    Surnames 腸(いかりや)Listen 腸(ちょう)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    intestines; guts; bowels; viscera

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    intestines; emotions; sausage

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    intestines

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    intestines; emotions; sausage

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

    One type of digestive organ. Divided into large intestine and small intestine. The small intestine connects to the lower opening of the stomach above. Winds down to the lower right of the abdomen. Connects to the large intestine. The end of the large intestine is the anus. The small intestine digests. The large intestine stores the waste discharged by the small intestine.

  • Onyomi

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    choh(チョウ) チョウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    harawata(はらわた) はらわた

    wata(わた) わた

  • Strokes

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    13 strokes

  • Radical

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    肉 月 (niku・nikuzuki)

  • Related Keywords

    intestine gut heart bowels abdomen colon core digestion digestive emotion feeling organ inner

Sentences including 腸

  • I believe you have appendicitis.

  • I gave him an enema.

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