Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons

殻: husk, nut shell

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

殳 carries the meaning · 壳 gives the sound

11 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 地殻変動ちかくへんどうdiastrophism (movement and deformation of…
  • 地殻ちかく(Earth's) crust

からkara · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 殻からshell; husk; hull

がらgara · kun'yomi

  • 貝殻かいがらseashell; shell
  • 吸い殻すいがら

Also read コク, バイ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)几 (meaning) + 㱿 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 殼 (rev. 93387933), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Vessel/pot + lance shaft (殳). The act of "striking" a vessel or grain with a "shaft" to remove the outer "shell" or hull.”
From the 殳 lance shaft story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
殳

Also built on lance shaft (殳)

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殻 gives its sound to

The family reading is コク (koku). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read カク

19 kanji share this on'yomiAll 19

Also read コク

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read バイ

12 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 壳 · traditional 殼 · ké

Three different forms: Japanese 殻, simplified 壳, traditional 殼.

Simplified
壳 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
殼 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin ké 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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