縄 — kanji meaning “straw rope”
縄
straw rope, cord
- Meanings
- straw rope, cord
- On'yomi
- ジョウ (jou)
- Kun'yomi
- なわ、ただ.す
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- 4
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1075 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 120
- Chinese reading
- shéng
Words with 縄
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沖縄 | おきなわ okinawa | Okinawa (city, prefecture) |
| 縄張り | なわばり nawabari | stretching a rope around; roping off; cordoning off |
| 縄文 | じょうもん joumon | straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware |
| 縄跳び | なわとび nawatobi | skipping rope; jump rope |
| 一筋縄 | ひとすじなわ hitosujinawa | (piece of) rope |
| 火縄銃 | ひなわじゅう hinawajuu | matchlock; arquebus |
| 沖縄電力 | おきなわでんりょく okinawadenryoku | Okinawa Electric Power Co., Inc.; OEPC |
| しめ縄 | しめなわ shimenawa | rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil |
| 延縄 | はえなわ haenawa | longline |
| 自縄自縛 | じじょうじばく jijoujibaku | being caught in one's own trap; being hoisted by one's own petard |
| 荒縄 | あらなわ aranawa | straw rope |
| 泥縄 | どろなわ doronawa | measure taken too late; measure taken in haste |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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