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Kanji Detail for 椎 - "mallet, to strike, dull"

椎

  • Meaning

    椎 means "mallet, to strike, dull."

    1. Mallet - A hammer; a tool for striking.

    2. To strike - To hit; to pound.

    3. Dull - Slow; foolish.

    4. Spine - The vertebrae; backbone.

    5. Chinquapin - An evergreen tree of the beech family.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    chinquapin; mallet; spine

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    hammer, mallet; vertebra

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    hammer; mallet (variant of 槌[chui2]); variant of 捶[chui2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet

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

    To strike. Also a tool for striking. Also written as 槌. | Slow and dull. Such as 椎樸, 椎魯, colloquially meaning simple-minded.
  • Onyomitip

    sui(スイ) スイ

    tsui(ツイ) ツイ

  • Kunyomitip

    tsuchi(つち) つち

    u.tsu(う-つ) う-つ

  • Strokestip

    12 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords
    mallet to strike dull chinquapin spine vertebrae hammer pound back oak tree blunt

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