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To find any kanji, first try to identify the components it is made up of. Once you have identified any component, search for it in any of three ways:

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Example: look up 漢

Notice that 漢 is made of several components: 氵艹口夫
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42 word matches found for '藻' using reading 'も'

noun, 'no' adjective

algae; waterweed; seaweed; duckweed

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く

Most common form: もがく

'ku' godan verb

1. to struggle; to wriggle; to squirm; to writhe (often written with kana only)

2. to be impatient (often written with kana only)

(click the word to view an additional 2 forms, examples and links)

さんしょうも

Most common form: サンショウモ

noun

floating watermoss (Salvinia natans) (often written with kana only)

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Most common form: マツモ

noun

1. common hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum) (often written with kana only)

2. Analipus japonicus (species of brown alga)

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もくずがに

Most common form: モクズガニ

noun

Japanese mitten crab (Eriocheir japonica) (often written with kana only)

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Most common form: もぬけの殻

expression

completely empty; vacant; deserted; (everything) gone

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noun

seaweed bed; seaweed forest

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noun

seaweed

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noun

Ochromonas vischeri (species of golden alga) (often written with kana only)

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noun

star duckweed (Lemna trisulcata); ivy duckweed (often written with kana only)

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noun

seaweed salt; salt from burning seaweed

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noun

1. hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata) (often written with kana only)

2. Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)

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noun

spiny water nymph (Najas marina); spiny naiad; holly-leaved naiad (often written with kana only)

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noun

washed-up seaweed; stranded seaweed

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noun

eelgrass (Zostera marina) (often written with kana only)

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け

noun

shed skin of snake, insect, etc. (also place left behind) (see also: 蛻の殻)

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noun

whorl-leaf water milfoil (Myriophyllum verticillatum) (often written with kana only)

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noun

dwarf eelgrass (Nanozostera japonica); Japanese eelgrass (often written with kana only)

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noun

small pondweed (Potamogeton pusillus) (often written with kana only)

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てづるもづる

noun

basket star (any brittlestar of family Euryalina); basket fish (see also: 蜘蛛海星; often written with kana only)

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noun

bladderwort

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まつもむし

noun

Notonecta triguttata (species of backswimmer) (often written with kana only)

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きんぎょも

noun

1. Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) (see also: 穂咲の総藻; colloquialism)

2. aquatic plants such as hornwort that are commonly used in goldfish tanks, etc.

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noun

dinoflagellate of genus Ceratium (often written with kana only)

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カナダ

noun

waterweed (any aquatic plant of genus Elodea, esp. common waterweed, Elodea canadensis)

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noun

Brazilian elodea (species of aquatic plant, Egeria densa) (often written with kana only)

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noun

1. scraps of seaweed

2. death at sea (metaphor)

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ねんじゅも

noun

nostoc (often written with kana only)

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noun

Phyllospadix iwatensis (species of seagrass) (often written with kana only)

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noun

watery grave (metaphor)

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Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.

Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.

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