殻

husk, nut shell

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

カクコクバイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

からがら

Stroke Order

11 / 11

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:11

JLPT:N1

Frequency:1892

Vocabulary

カク

Word	Reading	Meaning
地殻変動	チカクヘンドウ	diastrophism (movement and deformation of the earth's crust); upheaval (e.g. in politics); seismic shift; earthshaking changes
地殻	チカク	(Earth's) crust
介殻	カイカク	sea shell
甲殻	コウカク	carapace; shell; crust
甲殻類	コウカクルイ	crustacean

コク

Word	Reading	Meaning
枳殻	キコク	trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata); hardy orange
船殻	センコク	hull

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
貝殻	かいがら	seashell; shell
殻	から	shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
吸い殻	すいがら	cigarette end; cigarette butt; tobacco ashes
紅殻	ベンガラ	red iron oxide; red ocher
紅殻	べんがら	red iron oxide; red ocher

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

surface, table, chart, diagram

kill, murder, butcher, slice off, split, diminish, reduce, spoil

one (in documents)

pledge, promise, vow

unusual, change, strange