幣
currency; cash; bad habit; humble prefix; gift; Shinto offerings of cloth; rope; cut paper
15 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1803.
Readings
- ヘイ (on reading): 貨幣 (かへい) money; 紙幣 (しへい) paper money
- ぬさ (kun reading): 切り幣 (きりぬさ) paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods; 幣を奉る (ぬさをたてまつる) to offer a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god
Components
- 敝
- 巾
- 乞 radical beg
- 冂 radical open box, upside down
- 丷 radical horns, inverted eight
- 巾 radical cloth
- 攵 radical strike, right-side form of 攴
Words using 幣
- 貨幣 (かへい) money
- 紙幣 (しへい) paper money
- 幣帛 (へいはく) offering of cloth (rope, paper, etc.)
- 造幣局 (ぞうへいきょく) mint
- 造幣 (ぞうへい) coinage
- 切り幣 (きりぬさ) paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods
- 幣を奉る (ぬさをたてまつる) to offer a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god
- 大幣 (おおぬさ) streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies)
- 小幣 (こぬさ) small purification wand
- 幣 (まい) reward
51 words in all.