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Kanji Detail for 櫛 - "comb, to comb"

櫛

  • Meaning

    櫛 means "comb, to comb." Also associated with close-packed.

    1. Comb - A tool for combing hair.

    2. To comb - To arrange hair with a comb.

    3. Close-packed - Like comb teeth, tightly arranged without gaps.

  • Four-character idioms with 櫛

    • 櫛風沐雨 しっぷうもくう Listen struggling through wind and rain; undergoing hardships
    • 櫛風浴雨 しっぷうよくう Listen struggling through wind and rain; undergoing hardships

  • Origin of 櫛

    木, wood, beside 節, which supplies the sound: a comb — the Shuowen gives it as the general name for combs fine and coarse. Old Japan heard kushi as a homophone of 苦死, suffering and death, which is why a comb is still avoided as a gift.

    How to remember it: Wood 木 cut into even joints 節 — a row of teeth: the comb.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: comb, to comb
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read くし, くしさき, くしはま)
    • Also carries these associations: close-packed

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 櫛

    Surnames 櫛(くし)Listen 櫛(くしさき)Listen 櫛(くしはま)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    comb

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    comb out; weed out, eliminate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    comb; to comb; to weed out; to eliminate; Taiwan pr. [jie2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    comb; to comb out, to eliminate, to weed out

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The general name for combs and fine-toothed combs. | To comb hair. "Combing in the wind and bathing in the rain" (櫛風沐雨) means toiling without rest.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shitsu(シツ) シツ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kushi(くし) くし

    kushikezu.ru(くしけず-る) くしけず-る

  • Strokes

    tip

    19 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    comb to comb close-packed neatly arranged grooming hair bristles teeth fine-toothed detangling styling tightly barber salon

Sentences including 櫛

  • Comb your hair before you go out.

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