幣 – cash, bad habit, humble prefix

15 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1803 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 幣 means cash, bad habit, humble prefix, gift, Shinto offerings of cloth, rope, cut paper. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ヘイ (hei); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ぬさ (nusa). It is written with 15 strokes, under radical 巾 (no. 50).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ヘイ	hei
Kun’yomi	ぬさ	nusa

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: 巾 (Kangxi radical 50). Components: 巾・并・冂・攵・乞.

Words using 幣

紙幣しへいpaper money貨幣かへいmoney

Example sentences

５ポンド紙幣をお持ちですか。

Do you have a five-pound note?

Tatoeba #235157

この代用貨幣では、会社の直営店に行き、その店で食料品や衣料を買うことしかできませんでした。

With the token they could only go to the company shop and buy food or clothing from that shop.

Tatoeba #220675

Kanji with the same radical

市常席帰師幅帯幕布希帳帽巾

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