Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
stature, height, spine
Kun:
せい
On:
セキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2299 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 脊椎 【セキツイ】 spine, vertebral column
  • 脊髄 【セキズイ】 spinal cord

Kun reading compounds

  • 背 【せ】 back, reverse, rear side, back (e.g. of a chair), spine (of a book), height, stature, ridge (of a mountain)
  • 背 【せい】 height, stature
  • 背 【せい】 height, stature

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji2, ji3
Korean:
cheog

Spanish

  • columna vertebral
  • espina dorsal
  • espalda
  • estatura

Portuguese

French

3763 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1212 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1339 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3297 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2317 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29472 Morohashi
4804 New Nelson (John Haig)
2071 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
268 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
1122.7 Four corner code
1-32-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
810a Unicode hex code