薙
薙 — chi
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 풀 깎을 치
- Romanization
- chi
- English
- weed; shave
- Mandarin
- tì
- Japanese on'yomi
- テイ, シ, タイ, ジ, チ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- な.ぐ なぎ か.る
- Japanese usage
- Jinmeiyō kanji
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 艸 (140, 13 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8599
Japanese words with 薙
- 薙刀なぎなた naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata
- 薙ぐなぐ to cut down (grass, etc.; by swinging a sickle, scythe, etc.); to mow
- 薙髪ちはつ shaving one's head (esp. upon entering the Buddhist priesthood); tonsure
- 薙刀術なぎなたじゅつ art of using a naginata
- 水薙鳥みずなぎどり petrel (esp. petrels of family Procellariidae)
- 横薙ぎよこなぎ sweeping sideways; mowing down
- 薙ぎ払うなぎはらう to mow down; to cut down; to slash (horizontally)
- 大水薙鳥おおみずなぎどり streaked shearwater (species of seabird, Calonectris leucomelas)
- 草薙の剣くさなぎのつるぎ Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia); grass-mowing sword
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Other hanja read “치”
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