柴 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Origin of the character

形声。「木」+音符「此」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

brush, firewood

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • サイ
Kun (native)
  • しば
Other languages
  • 拼音chai2
  • 한글si
  • 한글chae
  • Hán-ViệtSài
  • Hán-Việt

Basics

Strokes
10 strokes
Radical
木(き)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+67F4

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱此木

Words using this kanji

  • しば(しば)山野に生える雑木の総称。薪や垣にするために刈り取られた枝。brushwood, firewood
  • 柴犬しばいぬしばいぬ。shiba inu (dog breed), shiba, brushwood dog
  • 柴垣しばがきbrushwood fence
  • 柴薪さいしん柴と薪。brushwood and firewood
  • 柴胡さいこシソ科のミシマサイコ、ハクサンサイコなどの総称。 ミシマサイコの根を乾燥させた生薬。Bupleurum root, Radix Bupleuri
  • 柴扉さいひbrushwood door, brushwood gate, wretched abode, miserable shack
  • 柴染ふしぞめbrushwood color
  • 柴舟しばふねginger-flavored rice cracker (specialty of Ishikawa Prefecture)
  • 柴刈りしばかり「しばかり」の漢字表記。firewood gathering
  • 柴田学園大学しばたがくえんだいがくShibata Gakuen University

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(13 results)

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-6-4
Four Corner
2190.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4a6.33
Heisig
2202
Nelson
2251