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背

JLPT N3 SL6 9 strokes Frequency: #696

Meanings

Stature, Height, Back, Behind, Disobey, Defy, Go Back On, Rebel

Radicals

⺼

Decomposition

⿱北⺼

Etymology

Pictophonetic: flesh

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 rising bottom-to-top

4 diagonal right-to-left

5 curve right-to-left

6 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

7 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ハイ hai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

せい sei

せ se

そむ somu

Words Using This Kanji

183 words total

Other (20 words)

背筋が寒くなるせすじがさむくなる

to feel a chill run down one's spine

comparing heights

spine

seoi nage (judo)

halo

negative heliotropism

背後関係はいごかんけい

background (of a case, incident, etc.)

apostate

back seam

unlined in the back

a broken promise

slicing a fish down its back

背任罪はいにんざい

breach of trust

背革せがわ

back of a leatherbound book

背理はいり

absurdity

背戸せど

back door

背美鯨せみくじら

North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)

背格好せいかっこう

stature

背開きせびらき

slicing a fish down its back

棄背きはい

giving up and turning back

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