Kanji1 / 15
縄 kanji
straw rope, cord
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ジョウ
Kun readings
なわただす
Variant forms
繩Words with 縄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —縄文Popularstraw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware; Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
- —準縄a level and inked string; norm; rule; standard
- —捕縄policeman's rope (used for restraining criminals)
- —結縄knotted cord or rope; quipu; quippu
- —縄墨standard; inked timber marking string
- —絞縄hangman's noose; halter; rope to hang a criminal
- —縄鏢rope dart; rope javelin
- —縄文人Jōmon people
- —自縄自縛being caught in one's own trap; being hoisted by one's own petard
- —縄文土器straw rope-patterned ancient Japanese pottery
- —縄文時代Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
- —規矩準縄rules and standards; norms; criteria
- —結縄文字knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu
- —縄文式土器straw-rope pattern pottery; Jomon ware
- —先縄文時代pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)
- —続縄文時代post-Jōmon period (mainly Hokkaido; 3rd to 7th century BCE); epi-Jōmon period
- —自縄自縛に陥るto be caught in one's own trap
- —縄ひょうrope dart; rope javelin