漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
脊: stature, height
Also: spine
N1 (our estimate)10 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
月 carries the meaning · 人 and 二 are drawn in
10 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 脊椎せきついspine; vertebral column; spinal column
- 脊髄せきずいspinal cord
- 脊柱せきちゅうspinal column; vertebral column; spine
Also read せ, せい, 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
“It looks like the moon, but it's actually muscle! When you see this "moon" on the left side of a character, don't think of the night sky—think of your own body.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jǐ
Same form: 脊 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 脊 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 脊 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jǐ 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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