尾
tail; end; counter for fish; lower slope of mountain
7 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 875.
Readings
- ビ (on reading): 交尾 (こうび) copulation (among animals); 語尾 (ごび) (inflectional) ending of a word
- お (kun reading): 尾 (お) tail (of an animal); 尾根 (おね) (mountain) ridge
- Read as a whole word: 尻尾 (しっぽ) tail (of an animal); トカゲの尻尾切り (とかげのしっぽぎり) evading blame by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; 交尾む (つるむ) to copulate (animals)
Components
Kanji containing 尾
- 梶 sculling oar
Words using 尾
- 交尾 (こうび) copulation (among animals)
- 語尾 (ごび) (inflectional) ending of a word
- 末尾 (まつび) end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)
- 船尾 (せんび) stern
- 艦尾 (かんび) stern (of a warship)
- 尾 (お) tail (of an animal)
- 尾根 (おね) (mountain) ridge
- 尾長 (おなが) azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyana)
- 尾羽 (おは) tail and feathers
- 尾張 (おわり) Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
- 尻尾 (しっぽ) tail (of an animal)
- トカゲの尻尾切り (とかげのしっぽぎり) evading blame by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them
- 交尾む (つるむ) to copulate (animals)
- 鳶尾 (いちはつ) wall iris
- 尻尾を出す (しっぽをだす) to show one's true colors (colours)
- 尾ける (つける) to follow (someone)
- 尾類 (ずり) prostitute
144 words in all.