Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
line
Parts:
spit, skewer
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2139 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 串 【くし】 spit, skewer, proxy (computer server)
  • 串揚げ 【くしあげ】 kushiage, deep-fried skewered meat and vegetables
  • 牛串 【ぎゅうくし】 skewered beef
  • 魚串 【うおぐし】 fish skewer, skewered fish

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan4
Korean:
gwan, cheon

Spanish

  • broqueta
  • espetón

Portuguese

French

  • brochette
  • broche
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516 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1394 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4364 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2973 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
610 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
80 Morohashi
30 New Nelson (John Haig)
603 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
649 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a7.13 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
5000.6 Four corner code
1-22-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e32 Unicode hex code