Keyword
husk
Info
FrequencyTop 1700-1800
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig767
Old form
Readings
かく
(36%)
から
(35%)
がら
(27%)
こく
(1%)
Composed of
professional
roof without a chimney
desk
weapon
Used in vocabulary (84 in total)
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
seashell; shell
shell (e.g. electron shell)
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
shell; crust
carapace; shell; crust
to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself
cigarette end; cigarette butt; tobacco ashes
cigarette end; cigarette butt; tobacco ashes
diastrophism; movement and deformation of the earth's crust; upheaval (e.g. in politics); seismic shift; earthshaking changes
(Earth's) crust
red iron oxide; rouge
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
rice husks; chaff
external ear; auricle
embers; cinders; burnt residue; combustion residue
chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass; poor-quality coke (coal); left-overs; remnants
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata); hardy orange
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
buckwheat chaff
rice husks; chaff
shelling (e.g. of eggs, nuts, crabs and such)
grounds (of tea and coffee)
used tea leaves
shelling (e.g. of eggs, nuts, crabs and such)
to close up like an oyster; to retire into one's shell
crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal
apex of a shell; umbo
shoulder blade; scapula
buckwheat chaff
flail (for threshing grain)
remnants of a bean plant; beanstalks and pods; bean husk
skeleton shrimp (Caprella mutica); spectre shrimp; specter shrimp
(coal) cinders
cupule; acorn cup
grounds (of tea and coffee)
crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
coconut shell
putamen (part of brain); frustule; silicified cell wall of a diatom
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
chicken bones; chicken carcass
chicken bones; chicken carcass
okara; soy pulp; tofu dregs; edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu
egg; eggshell
cottony cushion scale (species of scale insect, Icerya purchasi)
skeleton shrimp (Caprella mutica); spectre shrimp; specter shrimp
clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum)
clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum)
coconut shell
empty shell
adductor muscle (of a bivalve)
Rostroconchia (class of extinct molluscs)
ice crust; ice rind; ice shell
grayish-blue (color)
Japanese wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius); wine raspberry; wineberry
titan triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens); giant triggerfish; moustache triggerfish
blackbelly triggerfish (Rhinecanthus verrucosus)
Fowler's snake eel (Ophichthus erabo)
Examples (6 in total)
She sells seashells by the seashore.
I found a beautiful shell on the shore.
Shrimps, crabs, and lobsters are crustaceans.