12 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

stick, paste, apply

Kun'yomi
  • to stick ②to stretch ③to form (e.g. ice on a pond) ④to fill ⑤to stick out ⑥to be expensive ⑦to keep a watch on ⑧to become one tile away from completion ⑨to span
On'yomi
  • テン
  • チョウ
    counter for doses of medicine, etc.

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

100.0%

Character Breakdown

stick, paste, apply
は.る テン チョウ (11th)
shellfish
かい バイ (1st, N2)
eye, class, look
め モク ボク (1st, N4)
eight, eight radical (no. 12)
ハチ や はっ (1st, N5)
fortune-telling, divining, forecasting
うらな.う セン し.める (7th, N2)
divining, fortune-telling, divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)
ボク うらな.う うらない (Kentei Pre-1)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)

Common Words

to paste ②to station
patching (up) ②cut and paste
covering private parts (esp. actors during filming) ②minimal bikini bottom (held only by tiny straps or adhesive tape) ③lined hakama that bulge in the front
adhesive skin patch
temporary pasting
finishing coat of paper
pasting (on) by hand ②gambling without money (on the understanding that losses shall be covered later)
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References

Unicode hex code 8CBC
JIS X 0208 1-37-29
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 4498
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 5787
Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary 1510
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 1904
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 1369
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2736
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 60
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 36718
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 1823
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 7b5.2
Four corner code 6186.0
De Roo Code 3977