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Kanji Detail for 石 - "stone"

石

  • Meaning

    石 means "stone." Also associated with hard, inflexible.

    1. Stone - Rock; pebble; things made of stone.

    2. Hard - A metaphor for something solid and sturdy.

    3. Inflexible - Something that cannot be changed; stubborn.

    4. Worthless - Something of no value or use.

    5. Mineral medicine - Medicine made from minerals.

    6. Volume unit - A unit of capacity measurement.

    7. Ship cargo unit - A unit for measuring ship cargo capacity.

  • Words using 石

    • 石油 せきゆ Listen oil; petroleum; kerosene
    • 化石 かせき Listen fossil; petrifaction; petrification
    • 石炭 せきたん Listen coal
    • 石橋 いしばし Listen stone bridge
    • 宝石 ほうせき Listen gem; jewel; precious stone
    • 土石 どせき Listen earth and stones
    • 布石 ふせき Listen strategic arrangement of go stones at the beginning of a game; opening moves; preparations
    • 石器 せっき Listen stone implement (e.g. stone age arrowheads); stone tool

  • Four-character idioms with 石

    • 一石二鳥 いっせきにちょう Listen killing two birds with one stone
    • 匪石之心 ひせきのこころ Listen steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about
    • 枕流漱石 ちんりゅうそうせき Listen sore loser who stubbornly refuses to admit being wrong
    • 漱石枕流 そうせきちんりゅう Listen sore loser who stubbornly refuses to admit being wrong
    • 点滴穿石 てんてきせんせき Listen constant dripping wears away the stone; little strokes fell great oaks; limited strength, when persistently applied, can accomplish great feats
    • 玉石混交 ぎょくせきこんこう Listen mixed bag; mixture of good and bad; jumble of wheat and chaff

  • Tattoo check: 石

    • Verified meaning: stone
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あきら, あつし, いし, いしおどり)
    • Also carries these associations: hard, inflexible

    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 石

    Given names 石(あつし)Listen

    Surnames 石(あきら)Listen 石(いし)Listen 石(いしおどり)Listen 石(いしさき)Listen 石(いしざき)Listen 石(いしすえ)Listen 石(いしずえ)Listen 石(いしはま)Listen 石(いしふく)Listen 石(いしぶく)Listen 石(いそ)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    stone

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    stone, rock, mineral; Kangxi radical 112

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Shi; abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    stone, rock, mineral

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

    Earth matter that is hard and forms lumps. | A unit of measurement. Ten dou make one shi. | Steles and tablets are generally called 石. Such as 金石之學 (the study of bronze and stone). Referring to the study of inscriptions on bells, cauldrons, and steles. | The meaning of useless. Such as land that cannot be cultivated is called 石田 (barren field). A woman who cannot bear children is called 石女 (barren woman).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    koku(コク) コク

    seki(セキ) セキ

    shaku(シャク) シャク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ishi(いし) いし

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    石 (ishi・ishihen)

  • Related Keywords

    stone hard inflexible mineral medicine powder ship cargo unit unyielding worthless rock boulder geology granite gravel igneous marble masonry metamorphic pebble quarry sedimentary slate volume unit

Sentences including 石

  • They're going to ishikawa.

  • It is easy for him to carry the stone.

  • What kind of stone is this?

  • Japan was hard up for oil.

  • Oil is of great use to us.

  • We are not short of oil in this country.

  • She passed the jewel off as her own.

  • This house is made of stone.

  • We've run short of oil.

  • This building is made of stone.

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