匙 – spoon

11 strokesN2 vocabulary

The kanji 匙 means spoon. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is シ (shi); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is さじ (saji). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 匕 (no. 21).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	シ	shi
Kun’yomi	さじ	saji

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 匕 (Kangxi radical 21). Components: 日・匕・疋.

Words using 匙

匙さじspoon

Kanji with the same radical

化北

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.