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嬢 = 㐮 + 女

嬢 is a Japanese kanji written with 16 strokes, listed here under the keyword “lass”. It is built from 㐮 (grass skirt) and 女 (woman). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1650.

Keyword
lass
RTK frame
1650
Strokes
16
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ジョウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
むすめ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
девушка
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
嬢 troubled

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 㐮 grass skirt
  2. 女 woman

How to find 嬢 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “grass skirt” + “woman”. 嬢 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 嬢 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.