織

音読おんよみ: ショク・シキ

訓読くんよみ: おる

画数かくすう: 18 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 糸(いとへん)

Meaning

Weave — to interlace threads to make fabric. Also used to mean to structure, organize, or build up a system.


  • 織物おりもの — woven fabric
  • 組織そしき — organization, structure
  • 染織せんしょく — dyeing and weaving
  • 羽織はおり — traditional Japanese jacket
  • 紡織ぼうしょく — spinning and weaving
  • 織機しょっき — loom (weaving machine)
  • 機織はたおり — hand weaving

The kanji 織 combines the thread radical 糸 with the sound and meaning component 戠 (shoku), implying the action of weaving or constructing fabric. Historically, it connects deeply with traditional Japanese crafts and modern structural ideas like “organizations.”

はは織物おりものつくっています。
My mother is making woven fabric.

この会社かいしゃ組織そしきが よく ととのっています。
This company has a well-structured organization.

“おる” is the basic verb for “to weave.” You’ll often hear it in traditional crafts or handloom contexts.
“そしき” is commonly used to talk about organizations, from company structures to biological systems.

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