The kanji 椎: meaning, readings and stroke order

椎

Meaning: vertebra
On reading: ツイ tsui
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 12
Radical: 木 tree
Level: Level 10 · the last years of senior high

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: đốt sống (chuy)
Japanese: せぼねをつくるほね。
Korean: 척추뼈 (추)
Chinese: 椎骨

Readings, words and example sentences

ツイ tsui · on reading · less common

脊せき椎つい
spine, backbone
脊せき椎つい動物について調べます。
We study vertebrates.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.