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鉋

Readings

Kana: ホウ、ビョウ、かんな
Romaji: hou, byō, kanna
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

carpenter's plane

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  13
Radical Number:  167
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-8-5
Korean Reading:  po
Chinese Reading:  bao4
Unicode:  924b
JIS:  6E70

Indexes

Nelson Index: 4838
New Nelson Index: 6248
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 8a5.8
Four Corner Index: 8711.2
Daikanwanjiten Index: 40292
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 11.0513

Words

鉋 (かんな)
plane (for working with wood)
鉋屑 (かんなくず)
wood shavings
台直し鉋 (だいなおしかんな)
plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes
反り台鉋 (そりだいかんな)
wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction
鉋身 (かんなみ)
cutting blade of a plane
円鉋 (まるがんな)
round carpenter's plane
四方反鉋 (しほうそりかんな)
wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
南京鉋 (ナンキンかんな)
spokeshave; spoke shave
鉋掛け (かんなかけ、カンナがけ)
planing (wood)
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