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Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1892 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: husk, nut shell

Kunyomi: から, がら

Onyomi: カク, コク, バイ

Composition: 壳 殳

殻

Radical

Radical: 殳

Meaning: weapon, lance

Reading: るまた

Frequency: 93

殳

Examples

Onyomi Examples

殻 (カク) shell (e.g. electron shell)

殻果 (カクカ) hard-shelled nut (e.g. walnut, pecan, almond)

地殻 (チカク) (Earth's) crust

介殻 (カイカク) sea shell

枸橘 (カラタチ) trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata), hardy orange

船殻 (センコク) hull

Kunyomi Examples

殻 (から) shell, husk, hull, pod, chaff

殻竿 (からざお) flail (for threshing grain)

雪花菜 (おから) okara, soy pulp, tofu dregs, edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu

もぬけの殻 (もぬけのから) completely empty (of a residence, etc.), vacant, deserted, body from which the soul has left, corpse, shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)

殻 (がら) chicken bones (e.g. for soup), chicken carcass, poor-quality coke (coal), left-overs, remnants

灰殻 (はいがら) ashes

燃え殻 (もえがら) embers, cinders, burnt residue, combustion residue

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