Meanings

Commander, Leading Troops, Governor

Radicals

巾

Decomposition

⿰⿱丿㠯巾

Etymology

Ideographic: An army officer carrying a weapon 㠯 and a flag 巾

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 corner bottom-to-top

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

8 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

9 vertical right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

スイ sui

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

12 words total

Other (12 words)

元帥げんすい

(field) marshal

元帥府げんすいふ

Supreme Military Council (1898-1945)

総帥そうすい

commander-in-chief

統帥とうすい

supreme command

帥そち

director of the Dazaifu

将帥しょうすい

commander

統帥権とうすいけん

supreme command authority (of the emperor)

大元帥だいげんすい

commander-in-chief

志帥会しすいかい

Shisuikai (faction of the Liberal Democratic Party)

大元帥明王たいげんみょうおう

Atavaka (guardian deity)

大宰帥おおみこともちのかみ

director of the dazaifu (ritsuryō system)

マ元帥マげんすい

General Douglas MacArthur

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