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Zach

Readings

Kana: ボウ、ホウ、ビョウ、はまぐり、どぶが.い
Romaji: bou, hou, byō, hamaguri, dobuga.i
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

clam

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  10
Radical Number:  142
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-6-4
Korean Reading:  bang
Chinese Reading:  beng4
Unicode:  868c
JIS:  6953

Indexes

New Nelson Index: 5281
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 6d4.1
Four Corner Index: 5510.0
Daikanwanjiten Index: 32851
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 10.0007

Words

(はまぐり、ハマグリ)
common orient clam (Meretrix lusoria)
鷸蚌の争い (いつぼうのあらそい)
while two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it; the fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit)
鷸蚌 (いつぼう、いっぽう)
a snipe and a clam; a snipe and a mussel
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