Keyword
husk
Info
FrequencyTop 1700-1800
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig767
Old form
Readings
から
(36%)
かく
(34%)
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
(Earth's) crust
diastrophism; movement and deformation of the earth's crust; upheaval (e.g. in politics); seismic shift; earthshaking changes
red iron oxide; rouge
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
external ear; auricle
rice husks; chaff
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)
apex of a shell; umbo
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
buckwheat chaff
shoulder blade; scapula
flail (for threshing grain)
remnants of a bean plant; beanstalks and pods; bean husk
skeleton shrimp (Caprella mutica); spectre shrimp; specter shrimp
cupule; acorn cup
grounds (of tea and coffee)
(coal) cinders
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
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
putamen (part of brain); frustule; silicified cell wall of a diatom
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
coconut shell
clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum)
clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum)
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.