Keyword
sticky
- glutinous
- greasy
- persevere
- Frequency
- #1410
- Strokes
- 11
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 989
Readings
ネン50%
ねば50%
Mnemonic
A bowl of rice sits in front of a fortune-telling grandmother, and it clings to her fingers like glue: so sticky.
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Used in vocabulary
粘る
to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to; to hold out; to linger
Godan verb