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賽 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「貝」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「貝」
On
サイさい · sai
Kun
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Meaning
dice; an offering at a shrine

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Shell-money 貝 with abbreviated 塞 as phonetic: to repay the gods with an offering; in 賽子, dice.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 賽銭さいせん

    a monetary offering at a shrine

  • 賽子さいころ

    dice

More words with this kanji

  • 賽さい

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

賽銭(さいせん)を投(とう)じて手(て)を合(あ)わせる。

They cast in an offering and put their hands together.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

賽子賽銭賽子child銭coin貶to dis…貽to bes…賈to tra…貲wealth賚to bes…犲a jack…洒to was…砌the st…倅my son豺a jack…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 貝Map of reading サイAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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