椎 — spine, vertebra, chinquapin

つい椎 spine

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+690E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1911 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #597 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

spine
vertebra
chinquapin
mallet

Readings

On'yomi: つい tsui すい sui
Kun'yomi: つち tsuchi う u

word

つい tsui On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

脊(せき) 椎(つい) sekitsui spine

しい shii 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).

椎(しい) 名(な) shiina Shiina (surname)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

隹 short-tailed bird

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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.

#75 木 tree