Kanji Detail for 什 - "ten, utensils, poetry"

什

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
什 means "ten, utensils, poetry."
1. Ten - A group of ten people; a military unit of ten.
2. Ten - The number ten.
3. Utensils - Daily household items.
4. Poetry - Poems; verses.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

utensil; thing; ten

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

file of ten soldiers; mixed, miscellaneous

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

what

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

what? mixed, miscellaneous

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

Same as 十 (ten). (Mencius) "Perhaps ten or a hundred times different." | In ancient military organization, five people made a 伍, two 伍 made a 什. | Chapters. The Elegantiae and Hymns of the Book of Odes grouped ten poems as one volume, hence called 什. | 什物 (sundries). Referring to commonly used utensils. Their number is not just one, hence called 什. See (Records of the Grand Historian, commentary).
Onyomi

juu

shuu
Kunyomi

kumi(くみ)

ma.jiru(まじる)

to.u(とう)
Strokes

4 strokes
Radical

人亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)
Related Keywords
ten group people military unit number utensils daily household items poetry poems verses