漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
串: spit, skewer
N1 (our estimate)7 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
口 and 中 are drawn in
7 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
くしkushi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 串くしspit; skewer
- 串焼くしやきgrilling on a skewer; spit-roasting
- 串揚くしあげkushiage
Also read カン, ケン, セン, つらぬく, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Vertical stroke (丨) + two boxes (口). The perfect pictograph of a wooden "skewer" piercing through two pieces of food—the literal act of skewering.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
中
Also built on in (中)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side串 spit · 中
vs呂 spine · 丿In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · chuàn
Same form: 串 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 串 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 串 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chuàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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