尾 – vocab dash

Keyword

tail

end
counter for fish
lower slope of mountain

Frequency: #875
Strokes: 7
Grade: 8
JLPT (old): N1
Heisig: 2064

Readings

ビ67%

お33%

Mnemonic

A flag flutters over a motionless corpse, and from behind a tuft of fur pokes out and swishes like a tail.

Stroke order

Composed of

尸corpse with a flag 毛fur

Used in kanji

梶oar 娓comply 䅏rice boiled to gruel

Used in vocabulary

尾お

tail (of an animal); cauda; tail (of a kite, etc.); tail end; tail (of a comet); slope at the foot of a mountain

Noun

尻尾しっぽ

tail (of an animal); tail end; tip

Noun

最さい後こう尾び

end (e.g. of a line); tail end; rear; backmost part

Noun

尾お根ね

(mountain) ridge

Noun

末まつ尾び

end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)

Noun

語ご尾び

(inflectional) ending of a word; end of a sentence

Noun

交こう尾び

copulation (among animals); mating; treading; covering; serving

Noun

尾び

Chinese "Tail" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); counter for fish, shrimp, etc.

Noun

水み尾お

waterway; channel; wake (of a ship)

Noun

尾び季き

last player

Noun

追つい尾び

following; pursuing; tracking; shadowing; tailing; chasing

Noun

後こう尾び

the rear

Noun

尾び行こう

shadow; tail; following

Noun

尾張おわり

Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)

Noun

尾び翼よく

tail (of an aircraft); empennage; tail assembly

Noun

船せん尾び

stern

Noun

首しゅ尾び

beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; course of events; dealing with something successfully

Noun

牛尾魚こち

flathead (esp. the bartailed flathead, Platycephalus indicus)

Noun

尾お籠こ

foolish thing; stupid thing; absurdity; stupidity; fool; idiot; moron

Noun

尾お羽は

tail and feathers

Noun

尾お羽ばね

tail feathers

Noun

徹てっ頭とう徹てつ尾び

thoroughly; through and through; out and out; in every way; from beginning to end; from start to finish

Adverb

尾お長なが

azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyana); long-tailed

Noun

鳩尾みぞおち

pit of the stomach; solar plexus

Noun