The kanji 貝: meaning, readings and stroke order
貝
- Meaning
- shellfish, shell
- On reading
- —
- Kun reading
- かい kai
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 貝 shell
- Level
- Level 1 · grade 1
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- con sò (bối)
- Japanese
- かい。
- Korean
- 조개 (배·패)
- Chinese
- 贝壳 (贝)
Readings, words and example sentences
かい kai · kun reading
貝
shellfish, seashell
うみで きれいな 貝を ひろいました。
I picked up a pretty shell at the beach.
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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.