塗
塗 — Paint
paint, plaster, daub, smear, coating
On’yomiト (to)
Kun’yomiぬる (nuru)
Kun’yomiぬり (nuri)
Kun’yomiまみれる (mamireru)
Stroke order (13 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 塗
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 塗装 | とそう tosou | coating; painting |
| 塗料 | とりょう toryou | paint; coating; varnish |
| 塗り替える | ぬりかえる nurikaeru | to repaint; to paint again; to paint (a different colour) |
| 塗る | ぬる nuru | to paint; to spread; to plaster |
| 黒塗り | くろぬり kuronuri | blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered |
| 漆塗り | うるしぬり urushinuri | lacquering; lacquer ware |
Study notes
塗 is a JLPT N2 kanji written with 13 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1414 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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