脊 — spine, backbone, vertebrae

せき脊 spine

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+810A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2299 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #268 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Post

Meanings

spine
backbone
vertebrae

Readings

On'yomi: せき seki
Kun'yomi: せ se せい sei

word

せき seki 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

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひと人 person #9

つき月 moon #74

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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.

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