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櫛

comb
Stroke count: 17

Readings

On readingシツ
Kun readingくし、くしけず.る
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. combRtK
    外出する前に髪を櫛でときなさい。Comb your hair before you go out.tatoeba
    藩庁は櫛羅陣屋。The seat of government was Kujira jinya (regional government office)wiki

Homonyms

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Same reading (くし)
駆使 · using freely

Radicals and components

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Compound words

櫛笥くしげ
toiletries case
櫛比しっぴ
standing (close together) in a row
櫛鱗しつりん
ctenoid scale
櫛匣くしばこ
comb box
解き櫛ときぐし
wide-toothed comb
櫛水母くしくらげ
comb jelly (any jellyfish-like animal of the phylum Ctenophora)
櫛水母類クシクラゲるい
comb jellies (jellyfish-like animals of the phylum Ctenophora)
櫛風浴雨しっぷうよくう
struggling through wind and rain
櫛風沐雨しっぷうもくう
struggling through wind and rain
有櫛動物ゆうしつどうぶつ
ctenophore (aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora)
櫛の歯が欠けたようくしのはがかけたよう
missing important things here and there

Additional Examples

櫛笥家：四条庶流。
The Kushige Family: a side line of Shijowiki

Stroke Order

17 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 櫛

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