殻
shell; husk; nut shell
11 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1892.
Readings
- カク (on reading): 攻殻機動隊 (こうかくきどうたい) Ghost in the Shell (film); 甲殻類 (こうかくるい) crustacean
- から (kun reading): 殻 (から) shell; 貝殻 (かいがら) seashell
- コク (on reading): 船殻 (せんこく) hull
- バイ (on reading)
- がら (kun reading)
Components
- 壳
- 殳
- 冖 radical cover
- 几 radical table
- 又 radical again; right hand
- 士 radical scholar; samurai
- 殳 radical weapon; strike
Kanji containing 殻
- 穀 cereals
Words using 殻
- 攻殻機動隊 (こうかくきどうたい) Ghost in the Shell (film)
- 甲殻類 (こうかくるい) crustacean
- 殻 (かく) shell (e.g. electron shell)
- 地殻 (ちかく) (Earth's) crust
- 地殻変動 (ちかくへんどう) diastrophism (movement and deformation of the earth's crust)
- 殻 (から) shell
- 貝殻 (かいがら) seashell
- 抜け殻 (ぬけがら) cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.)
- 籾殻 (もみがら) rice husks
- 吸い殻 (すいがら) cigarette end
- 船殻 (せんこく) hull
59 words in all.