Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
wooden pestle
Kun:
きね
On:
ショ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2355 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 杵 【ショ】 vajra (mystical weapon in Hinduism and Buddhism)
  • 金剛杵 【コンゴウショ】 vajra (mystical weapon in Hinduism and Buddhism)

Kun reading compounds

  • 杵 【きね】 mallet, pestle, pounder
  • 杵柄 【きねづか】 mallet handle

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chu3
Korean:
jeo

Spanish

  • mortero para almirez

Portuguese

French

2201 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
629 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1074 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
768 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14503 Morohashi
2581 New Nelson (John Haig)
2503 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2565 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a4.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4894.0 Four corner code
1-21-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6775 Unicode hex code