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Kanji Detail for 椎 - "mallet"

椎

  • Meaning

    椎 means "mallet." Also associated with 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.

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    • Verified meaning: mallet
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read しい, しいざき, しいな)
    • Also carries these associations: to strike, dull

    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 椎

    Given names 椎(しい)Listen 椎(しいな)Listen

    Surnames 椎(しいざき)Listen

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sui(スイ) スイ

    tsui(ツイ) ツイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tsuchi(つち) つち

    u.tsu(う-つ) う-つ

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

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

Sentences including 椎

  • "Shiitake" is a sort of mushroom.

  • We keep shiitake mushrooms dry.

  • I have a slipped disc.

  • Disk herniation is when cartilage, called 'intervertebral disk' and found between each vertebra, slips out.

  • As the three men entered the alley, a bird resembling a crow flew from the top of a large beech tree as if it had been frightened.

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