繰 means “reel, wind, repeat”

くる · kuru

Also: winding, spin, turn (pages)

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

くる

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ソウ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 19 strokes

The story

Thread (糸) beside 喿, three mouths (品) chattering in a tree (木): picture silk reeled off cocoons while the workers talk. 繰る is to reel or turn over, 繰り返す is to repeat, and 繰り上げる is to move something up.

Used in 繰り返す (kurikaesu, to repeat), 繰り上げる (kuriageru, to move up), and 繰り越し (kurikoshi, carryover)

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