Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
armpit, the other way, another place, flank, supporting role
Kun:
わきわけ
On:
キョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1806 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 脇侍 【ワキジ】 flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
  • 脇息 【キョウソク】 armrest

Kun reading compounds

  • 脇 【わき】 armpit, under one's arm, side, flank, beside, close to, near, by, aside, to the side, away, out of the way, off-track, off-topic, deuteragonist, supporting role, second verse (in a linked series of poems)
  • 脇見 【わきみ】 looking from the side, looking aside
  • 床脇 【とこわき】 section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)
  • 口脇 【くちわき】 edges of the mouth
  • 関脇 【せきわけ】 wrestler of the third highest rank

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie2
Korean:
hyeob

Spanish

  • axila
  • sobaco
  • flanco
  • lado
  • lateral

Portuguese

French

  • flanc
  • aisselle
  • de côté (regard)
  • ailleurs (regard)
  • second rôle
1583 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3765 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1083 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1336 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1188 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
859 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
879 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29467 Morohashi
952 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4807 New Nelson (John Haig)
870 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
935 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
7422.7 Four corner code
1-47-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8107 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
1244 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 句 【ク】 section (i.e. of text), sentence, passage, paragraph, phrase, verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry), haiku, first 17 morae of a renga, etc., maxim, saying, idiom, expression, clause (e.g. in a database query language)
  • 区切り 【クギリ】 pause (in speech, writing, etc.), punctuation, break, end, (place to) stop, pause, milestone (e.g. in a project)
  • 絶句 【ゼック】 being lost for words, becoming speechless, jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
  • 慣用句 【カンヨウク】 idiom, set phrase, idiomatic phrase

Readings

Japanese names:
すく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ju4, gou1
Korean:
gu, gwi

Spanish

  • frase
  • cláusula
  • sentencia
  • oración
  • párrafo

Portuguese

  • frase
  • cláusula
  • sentença
  • passagem
  • parágrafo

French

  • phrase
  • clause
  • paragraphe
  • passage
  • compteur de haïku
592 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
683 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
655 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1258 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
745 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
795 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1123 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
337 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
337 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
663 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
315 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3685 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1881 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2561 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
65 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3234 Morohashi
2967 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
693 New Nelson (John Haig)
65 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
69 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
650 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2549 2001 Kanji
3d2.13 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-3 SKIP code
2762.0 Four corner code
1-22-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53e5 Unicode hex code