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貝 kanji
shellfish
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
バイ
Kun readings
かい
Variant forms
蛽Words with 貝
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —貝Japanese Babylon (Babylonia japonica); Japanese ivory shell; spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese Babylon shell)
- —貝貨shell money
- —貝母fritillary (Fritillaria verticillata var. thunbergii)
- —貝部kanji "shell" radical (154)
- —貝葉palm-leaf manuscript
- —貝多羅pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
- —蝦夷貝Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)
- —越虫貝finely-striate buccinum (Buccinum striatissimum)
- —貝多羅葉pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)