霧 means “fog, mist”

きり · kiri

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

きり

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ム, ボウ, ブ

Taught in secondary school · 19 strokes

The story

Mist hides the world in mystery. What cannot be seen becomes larger, more profound.

Common in Japanese art, symbolizes the unknowable

Its parts

• 雨 Rain/weather · Top
• 務 Duty/task · Bottom

Weather (雨) that obscures like dense work (務): fog

Kanji that look like 霧

• 雲 (cloud): 雲 has 云 under 雨, 霧 has 務; mist is busier than clouds
• 霜 (frost): 霜 has 相 under 雨, 霧 has 務: both weather under 雨 radical

More from Nature's Poetry

• 雨 rain
• 木 tree
• 月 moon
• 日 sun
• 風 wind
• 水 water
• 火 fire
• 山 mountain
• 川 river
• 花 flower
• 空 sky
• 森 forest

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.