Components

梗 means 'blockage'

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Strokes : 11    Frequency: 2278   JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-43    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 2 words   Used in 14 words   Used in 38 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
On
   コウ
On    キョウ
Kun    ふさぐ   やまにれ   おおむね
A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 梗 - click the badge to download
After learning multiple Japanese terms for "stroke," and two more for "heart attack," you'll impress yourself with your new ability to read medical text in Japanese. You'll also be able to understand the warnings on cigarettes. Then you'll take a major leap to the botanical world, contemplating the role of a particular flower in poetry, pop culture, and above all in family crests.
The essay is also included in the following Thematic Bundles
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Flower Power
菊 丹 梗 藤
In this bouquet of essays, flowers represent far more than beauty. Those showcased here (including the Chinese bellflower of the 梗 essay and the tree peony of the 丹 essay) symbolize everything from the emperor, nobility, and wealth to honor, love, and feminine beauty. The Japanese also associate some of these flowers with hardiness or with grief. People celebrate them in family crests, at festivals, with dolls, and in a range of artistic creations. Supposedly, the flowers even confer health benefits—curing headaches, cooling and invigorating the blood, and removing phlegm.
⿰   tree   again  
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 梗 is used 1 time, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 梗 is used 13 times, read 2 ways.
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コウ : 8 words FIND ALL
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Most common form: のうこうそく
noun
stroke (blocked blood vessel in brain); cerebral infarction
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キョウ : 5 words FIND ALL
noun
Chinese bellflower; Platycodon grandiflorum
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An additional 1 less common words include 梗 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
Henshall: Joy o' Kanji : 2006  Key to Kanji:

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コウ    blockage   
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コウ   さら again   ふける grow late   ふかす stay up late   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
crossed swords
モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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ジン   ニン   ひと person   
stick   
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