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:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: weapon, lance

Examples

Onyomi Examples

カク shell (e.g. electron shell)

構造 カクコウゾウ shell structure

チカク (Earth's) crust

カイカク sea shell

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

センコク hull

Kunyomi Examples

から shell, husk, hull, pod, chaff

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 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.)

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

はいがら ashes

燃え もえがら embers, cinders, burnt residue, combustion residue