Kanji
N1 11 strokes Grade 8 freq #1892

husk, nut shell

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

weapon rumata

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

diastrophism (movement and deformation of the earth's crust)
(Earth's) crust
hard-shelled nut (e.g. walnut, pecan, almond)
Rostroconchia (class of extinct molluscs)
shell (e.g. electron shell)
adductor muscle (of a bivalve)
(theory of) isostasy
cochlea

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

shell; husk
cigarette end; cigarette butt
seashell; shell
to withdraw into oneself; to shut oneself away
chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass
(coal) cinders
crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal
blackbelly triggerfish (Rhinecanthus verrucosus)
titan triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens); giant triggerfish
skeleton shrimp (Caprella mutica); spectre shrimp

Example sentences

The shell of an egg is easily broken.

Tom picked up some pretty shells on the beach.

I picked up a pretty shell at the seaside.