Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
weapon, lance
Parts:
Variants:
husk, nut shell
Kun:
からがら
On:
カクコクバイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1892 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 殻 【カク】 shell (e.g. electron shell)
  • 殻構造 【カクコウゾウ】 shell structure
  • 地殻 【チカク】 (Earth's) crust
  • 介殻 【カイカク】 sea shell
  • 枸橘 【カラタチ】 trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata), hardy orange
  • 船殻 【センコク】 hull

Kun reading compounds

  • 殻 【から】 shell, husk, hull, pod, chaff
  • 殻竿 【からざお】 flail (for threshing grain)
  • 雪花菜 【おから】 okara, soy pulp, tofu dregs, edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu
  • もぬけの殻 【もぬけのから】 completely empty (of a residence, etc.), vacant, deserted, body from which the soul has left, corpse, shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
  • 殻 【がら】 chicken bones (e.g. for soup), chicken carcass, poor-quality coke (coal), left-overs, remnants
  • 灰殻 【はいがら】 ashes
  • 燃え殻 【もえがら】 embers, cinders, burnt residue, combustion residue

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ke2, qiao4
Korean:
gag

Spanish

  • concha
  • cáscara
  • casco (buque)

Portuguese

  • casca
  • concha de noz

French

  • coquille
  • enveloppe (grain)
1075 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1869 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2456 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1832 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1455 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1728 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1846 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1626 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1141 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1883 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1000 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1354 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
717 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1490 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2996 New Nelson (John Haig)
710 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
767 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1451 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1468 2001 Kanji
3p8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
4724.7 Four corner code
1-19-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bbb Unicode hex code

竿

9 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
pole, rod, scale beam, violin neck
Kun:
さお
On:
カン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2416 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 竿 【カン】 counter for poles, rods, etc.
  • 竿頭 【カントウ】 top of a pole
  • 一竿 【イッカン】 one pole (esp. used for fishing poles), one rod
  • 三竿 【サンカン】 broad daylight

Kun reading compounds

  • 竿 【さお】 rod, pole, neck (of a shamisen, etc.), shamisen, beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance), single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese), penis, counter for flags (on poles), counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. yōkan)
  • 竿姉妹 【さおしまい】 women who have had sex with the same man, pole sisters
  • 殻竿 【からざお】 flail (for threshing grain)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gan1
Korean:
gan

Spanish

  • palo
  • barra
  • vara
  • caña

Portuguese

French

3369 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3259 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2288 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
25854 Morohashi
4250 New Nelson (John Haig)
2632 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2676 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f3.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
8840.1 Four corner code
1-20-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7aff Unicode hex code