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堤 = 土 + 是

堤 is a Japanese kanji written with 12 strokes, listed here under the keyword “dike”. It is built from 土 (soil) and 是 (just so). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 416.

Keyword
dike
RTK frame
416
Strokes
12
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
テイ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
つつみ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
плотина
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
堤 dike

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 土 soil
  2. 是 just so

How to find 堤 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “soil” + “just so”. 堤 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 堤 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.