This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

Readings

Kana: ロ、リョ、せぼね
Romaji: ro, ryo, sebone
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Romaji

Name Readings

Kana: とも、なが
Romaji: tomo, naga
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Meanings

spine, backbone

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  7
Radical Number:  30
Frequency:  2055
Grade:  8
Skip Pattern:  2-3-4
Korean Reading:  ryeo
Chinese Reading:  lu:3
Unicode:  5442
JIS:  4F24

Indexes

Halpern Index: 2187
Nelson Index: 891
New Nelson Index: 728
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 3d4.16
Four Corner Index: 6060.0
Gakken Index: 1509
Japanese Names Index: 459
Daikanwanjiten Index: 3386
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 2.0912
Remembering the kanji Index: 24
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 1385
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 1872
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 24
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 24
Essential Kanji Index: 1997
Kodansha Kanji Index: 2713

Words

(りょ)
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scaleimilar to Mixolydian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
露天風呂 (ろてんぶろ)
open air bath; rotemburo
風呂敷 (ふろしき)
wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
麿 (まろ)
I; me; (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows; affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets
語呂 (ごろ)
sound (of a sentence); euphony
風呂 (ふろ)
bath; bathtub; bathroom; bathhouse; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
語呂合せ (ごろあわせ)
rhyming game; play on words; pun
風呂上がり (ふろあがり)
just out of the bath
五右衛門風呂 (ごえもんぶろ)
bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)
男風呂 (おとこぶろ)
(public) baths for men
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