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崎

Cape
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingキ
Kun readingさき
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 4Level 23

Meanings

  1. cape
  2. promontoryRtK
  3. spit
  1. small peninsula
  2. headland

Synonyms

岬

Homonyms

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Same reading (さき)
先 · point左記 · undermentioned (statement)

Radicals and components

Radical山mountain
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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mountain (山) · strange · large (大) · St. Bernard (犬) · can · street (行) · nail · spike · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 840

Compound words

川崎かわさき
Kawasaki (city)
長崎ながさき
Nagasaki (city, prefecture)
崎崖きがい
steepness of a mountain
崎嶇きく
steep (mountain)
州崎すさき
sandspit
宮崎県みやざきけん
Miyazaki Prefecture (Kyūshū)
宮崎縣みやざきけん
Miyazaki Prefecture (Kyūshū)
長崎県ながさきけん
Nagasaki Prefecture (Kyūshū)
長崎縣ながさきけん
Nagasaki Prefecture (Kyūshū)
川崎七分かわさきしちぶ
type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
江戸の仇を長崎で討つえどのかたきをながさきでうつ
to hit someone where they least expect it
江戸の敵を長崎で討つえどのかたきをながさきでうつ
to hit someone where they least expect it
江戸のかたきを長崎で討つえどのかたきをながさきでうつ
to hit someone where they least expect it

Additional Examples

彼は長崎に住んでいる。
He lives in Nagasaki.tatoeba
彼は長崎で生まれました。
He was born in Nagasaki.tatoeba
長崎へもう一度いくと３回行ったことになる。
I will have been to Nagasaki three times if I go there again.tatoeba
長崎は、私の生まれたところで、美しい港町です。
Nagasaki, where I was born, is a beautiful port city.tatoeba

Stroke Order

11 strokes

Cape. 山 (mountain) + 奇 (protruding) — a mountain jutting into the sea. 長崎 — Nagasaki.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 崎

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