Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
head
Parts:
neck, counter for songs and poems
Kun:
くび
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
98 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 首 【シュ】 counter for songs and poems
  • 首級 【シュキュウ】 decapitated head of an enemy
  • 元首 【ゲンシュ】 sovereign, ruler, head of state
  • 百人一首 【ヒャクニンイッシュ】 (Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu, classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets, hyakunin isshu karuta, hyakunin isshu poetry cards, deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

Kun reading compounds

  • 首 【くび】 neck, head, dismissal (from a job), firing, sacking
  • 首飾り 【くびかざり】 necklace, choker
  • 縛り首 【しばりくび】 (death by) hanging
  • 猪首 【いくび】 bull neck

Readings

Japanese names:
おびと、 こべ、 す
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • cuello
  • principio

Portuguese

  • pescoço

French

  • cou
  • compteur de chansons ou poèmes
239 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
155 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
139 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
208 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5186 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
138 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
281 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
920 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
148 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
148 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
393 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1910 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2818 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1452 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1956 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
70 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44489 Morohashi
2265 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6719 New Nelson (John Haig)
70 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
74 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
177 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
979 2001 Kanji
2o7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
8060.1 Four corner code
1-28-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9996 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 捻挫 【ネンザ】 sprain, twist, wrench
  • 捻軍 【ネングン】 Nian Rebellion (of China; 1851-1868)
  • 揉捻 【ジュウネン】 rolling freshly-picked tea-leaves, crushing tea

Kun reading compounds

  • 捩る 【ねじる】 to twist, to screw, to wrench, to sprain
  • 捩る 【ねじる】 to twist, to screw, to wrench, to sprain
  • 捻くる 【ひねくる】 to twirl, to spin, to fiddle with, to change (e.g. wording)
  • 捻る 【ひねる】 to twist, to wrench, to turn (a tap, switch, etc.), to twist (a body part), to bend, to sprain, to strangle (to death), to wring (an animal's neck), to defeat easily, to beat, to make (a problem, design, etc.) intricate, to make peculiar, to make complicated, to manage to compose (a haiku, song, etc.), to wrap (a monetary gift) in paper

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian3
Korean:
nyeom, nyeob

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1940 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2094 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
604 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
457 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12222 Morohashi
2201 New Nelson (John Haig)
2251 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1716 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3c8.25 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
5803.2 Four corner code
1-39-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
637b Unicode hex code