Entry
  1. Noun

    stick; piece of wood; billet; piece of a broken pole

    学校に本や紙や鉛筆がないのを知ると、彼女は棒きれで地面にアルファベットを書いた。
    When the school had no books or paper or pencils, she wrote the alphabet on the ground with a stick.

Also written 棒きれ【ぼうきれ】棒切【ぼうきれ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

rod, stick, cane, pole, club, line

On
ボウ
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1455 of 2500
Radical
tree
WaniKani
Level 31

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
1-4-8SKIP code
4a8.20The Kanji Dictionary
4595.3Four corner code
1855deroo
68d2Unicode hex code
1-43-32JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2302Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2750New Nelson (John Haig)
983New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1237Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
671Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
894Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1575Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1697Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1424A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1623Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1121Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
14929Morohashi
975A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1543Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1645Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
636Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
987henshall3
956Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
988Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1105Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1589Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
bang4Pinyin reading
bong, bangKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
31WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cut, cutoff, be sharp

Kun
き.る-き.るき.り-き.り-ぎ.りき.れる-き.れるき.れ-き.れ-ぎ.れ
On
セツサイ
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
324 of 2500
Radical
knife
WaniKani
Level 3

Built from

Used in names as

きつきりぎり

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-2-2SKIP code
2f2.2The Kanji Dictionary
4772.0Four corner code
1445deroo
5207Unicode hex code
1-32-58JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
667Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
453New Nelson (John Haig)
27New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
30Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
15Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
15Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
85Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
89Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
204A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
51Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
36Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1858Morohashi
156A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
39Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
39Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
99sakade
126Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
173henshall3
97Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
208crowley
250Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.3busy_people
179Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
86Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
qie1, qie4Pinyin reading
jeol, cheKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
3WaniKani level