贄 — 18 strokes / Radical「貝」
道1University / general (hardest) / 18 strokes / Radical「貝」
- On
- シし · shi
- Kun
- にえnie
- Meaning
- an offering brought on first meeting
Stroke order
Origin
Shell-money 貝 with 執 as phonetic: the gift brought at a first meeting.
Compounds
- 贄にえ
an offering
- 初贄はつにえ
a first offering
- 速贄はやにえ
Example
贄を携えて師の門をたたく。
They bring a gift and knock at the master’s gate.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)