Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
leather, rawhide
Parts:
sheath, case, margin, difference, shells (of beans)
Kun:
さや
On:
ショウソウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鞘翅類 【ショウシルイ】 coleopterans, beetles
  • 髄鞘 【ズイショウ】 myelin sheath (around the axon of a neuron)
  • 葉鞘 【ヨウショウ】 leaf sheath, vagina

Kun reading compounds

  • 鞘 【さや】 scabbard, sheath, cap (on pen, brush, etc.), case, sleeve, margin (between two prices), spread, markup, commission, enclosure, outer fence
  • 鞘当て 【さやあて】 rivalry in love, rivalry for the heart of a woman, quarrel over something trivial, storm in a teacup, quarrel between two samurai due to an (accidental) clash of sheaths while crossing paths
  • 元サヤ 【もとサヤ】 getting back together, being reconciled, returning to normal
  • 弓は袋に太刀は鞘 【ゆみはふくろにたちはさや】 the world is at peace, bows in bags and swords in sheaths

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiao4, shao1
Korean:
cho

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5099 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2542 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2259 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1598 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
42850X Morohashi
6587 New Nelson (John Haig)
2784 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2805 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b12.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-7 SKIP code
4952.7 Four corner code
1-30-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9798 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
corpse
Parts:
buttocks, hips, butt, rear
Kun:
しり
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1692 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 後輪 【コウリン】 rear wheel, cantle
  • 尻座 【コウザ】 crouching

Kun reading compounds

  • 尻 【しり】 buttocks, behind, rump, bottom, hips, undersurface, bottom, last place, end, consequence
  • 尻尾 【しっぽ】 tail (of an animal), tail end, tip
  • 道の後 【みちのしり】 the part of a province furthest from the capital
  • 美尻 【びしり】 beautiful buttocks

Readings

Japanese names:
がみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kao1
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • asentaderas
  • trasero
  • culo
  • parte trasera

Portuguese

French

1704 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1379 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1884 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
176 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2029 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3766 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2610 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
7634 Morohashi
3032 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1407 New Nelson (John Haig)
2220 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3757 2001 Kanji
3r2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
7721.7 Four corner code
1-31-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c3b Unicode hex code