Kanji
N1 7 strokes Grade 8 freq #875

tail, end, counter for fish, lower slope of mountain

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

corpse shikabane

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

tail (of an animal); cauda
(mountain) ridge
end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)
copulation (among animals); mating
tail (of an aircraft); empennage
stern
(inflectional) ending of a word
following; pursuing
beginning and end; from beginning to end
shadow; tail

Example sentences

Someone! Catch that man!

The baby was amusing itself with the cat's tail.

In many languages the way dictionary-form words end is fixed; in Japanese they end in a 'u row' character.

The main thing that dreams lack is consistency.