鏑
arrowhead
19 strokes.
Readings
- かぶらや (kun reading): 鏑矢 (かぶらや) arrow with a whistle attached
- かぶら (kun reading): 鏑 (かぶら) turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired); 八目鏑 (やつめかぶら) eight-holed arrow whistle
- テキ (on reading)
- やじり (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 流鏑馬 (やぶさめ) horseback archery
Components
- 金
- 啇
- 亠 radical lid
- 冂 radical open box, upside down
- 十 radical ten
- 丷 radical horns, inverted eight
- 口 radical mouth
- 立 radical stand
- 金 radical gold; metal
- 滴 radical stem; root, as in 適, 敵