Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Animation shown for the standard form 巣, which 巢 is a variant of.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 巢 is filed under 巛 (river) — radical number 47 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
Three quick games built from this character's real data. Your streak is kept in this browser.
Useful when looking a character up by stroke count — and a common source of visual mix-ups.
Kanji Duel pits 巢 and 3,000 others head to head. One life. How long can you last?
巢 means Nest, Living Quarter In Tree.
巢 is written with 11 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
Japanese schoolchildren learn it in name kanji.
The radical of 巢 is 巛 (river), radical number 47 of the 214 Kangxi radicals. The radical is the component a dictionary files the character under, and it usually points at the character's meaning.
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