Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N3

98 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: neck, counter for songs and poems

Kunyomi: くび

Onyomi: シュ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: くび

Meaning: head

Strokes: 9

Examples

Examples with audio

都(しゅと)   capital city

脳(しゅのう)   head, leader, chief

相(しゅしょう)   Prime Minister, Chancellor

席(しゅせき)   top seat

位(しゅい)   first place, head position

(ぶしゅ)   radical (of kanji)

(とうしゅ)   party leader

(きしゅ)   nose of a plane

刑(こうしゅけい)   death by hanging

する(じしゅする)   surrender, give oneself up

(くび)   neck

(てくび)   wrist

Onyomi Examples

シュ counter for songs and poems

シュキュウ decapitated head of an enemy

ゲンシュ sovereign, ruler, head of state

百人一 ヒャクニンイッシュ (Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu, classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets, hyakunin isshu karuta, hyakunin isshu poetry cards

Kunyomi Examples

くび neck, head, dismissal (from a job), firing, sacking

飾り くびかざり necklace, choker

縛り しばりくび (death by) hanging

いくび bull neck