薙
- Meaning
- mow down (the enemy)
- On reading
- テイ | チ
- Kun reading
- な.ぐ | なぎ | か.る
- Nanori
- —
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 140
- Grade
- 9
- JLPT
- —
- Frequency
- —
Stroke order
Words using 薙
- なぎ倒す なぎたおす — to mow down
- 薙刀 なぎなた — naginata
- 薙ぎ払う なぎはらう — to mow down
- 薙刀術 なぎなたじゅつ — art of using a naginata
- 薙ぐ なぐ — to cut down (grass, etc.; by swinging a sickle, scythe, etc.)
- 水薙鳥 みずなぎどり — petrel (esp. petrels of family Procellariidae)
- 大水薙鳥 おおみずなぎどり — streaked shearwater (species of seabird, Calonectris leucomelas)
- 草薙の剣 くさなぎのつるぎ — Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia)
- 横薙ぎ よこなぎ — sweeping sideways
- 薙髪 ちはつ — shaving one's head (esp. upon entering the Buddhist priesthood)