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芯

wick
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingシン

Meanings

  1. wickRtK
    体の芯まで冷え切ってしまった。I'm chilled to the bone.tatoeba
    私は体の芯まで冷え切った。I was frozen to the bone.tatoeba
  1. staple (for stapler)
  2. (pencil) lead
  3. stuffing

Synonyms

心蕊

Homonyms

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Radicals and components

Radical艸grass
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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flowers (艹) · heart (心)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 647

Compound words

シャーペンの芯2・3本もらえるかな。
Could you lend me a few mechanical pencil leads?tatoeba
この替え芯は半年持つ。
This refill lasts half a year.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

主人公に芯が通ってるというのは読んでて好感が持てる
しゅじんこうにしんがかよってるというのはよんでてこうかんがもてるThe fact that the protagonist has a core running through them is something I really appreciate when reading.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 芯

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