Kanji Detail for 椎 - "mallet, spine, tree"

椎

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
椎 means "mallet, spine, tree."
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.
Onyomi

sui(すい)

tsui(つい)
Kunyomi

sebone(せぼね)

shii(しい)

tsuchi(つち)

u.tsu(うつ)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

木 (ki・kihen)
Related Keywords
mallet spine vertebrae hammer tree chinquapin backbone support strike pound tool sturdy strength nature evergreen forestry wood solid firm resilient