串 — spit, skewer

くし串 spit

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+4E32 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2139 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #649 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

spit
skewer

word

くし kushi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

串(くし) kushi skewer

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

なか中 middle

Used as component in (1)

かん患 afflicted

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#2 丨 line