尻 — buttocks, hips, butt

しり尻 buttocks

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+5C3B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1692 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1134 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

buttocks
hips
butt
rear

word

しり shiri 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).

尻(しり) shiri buttocks

しっ shi 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).

尻(しっ) 尾(ぽ) shippo tail

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

尸 corpse

きゅう九 nine

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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.

#44 尸 corpse