A kanji
囲
surround, besiege, store, paling, enclosure, encircle, preserve, keep
- 7 strokes
- Taught in grade 5 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 771 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
イ
Kun'yomi
かこ.む、かこ.う、かこ.い
A dot marks where the okurigana begin.
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 囲 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 囲 4 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N3 · 4 words
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 囲.
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