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軸

JLPT N1 12 strokes Frequency: #1261

Meanings

Axis, Pivot, Stem, Stalk, Counter For Book Scrolls

Radicals

車

Decomposition

⿰車由

Etymology

Pictophonetic: wheel

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical bottom-to-top

3 corner bottom-to-top

4 horizontal left-to-right

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 vertical right-to-left

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

10 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

11 horizontal left-to-right

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ジク jiku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

106 words total

Other (20 words)

oblique axis

axon terminal

axon hillock

axon terminal

axon guidance

vertical shaft

point at issue

drive shaft

steering column

adaxial

axial

optic axis (of a crystal)

八軸はちじく

the eight volumes of the Lotus Sutra

眼軸長がんじくちょう

axial length (of the eye)

眼軸がんじく

geometrical axis (of the eye)

軸足を置くじくあしをおく

to focus on particular aspects of things

axial center

biaxial

axial rod

polar axis (of a telescope)

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