EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Auxiliary

    should (be); bound (to be); expected (to be); must (be)

    Usually written using kana alone

    その飛行機は今ごろは関西空港に当然着いているはずだ。
    The plane should have arrived at Kansai Airport by now.
  2. Noun

    nock (of a bow)

  3. nock (of an arrow)

  4. nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger)

    Sumosee はず押しsee はずおし

  5. wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

Also written 弭【はず】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

notch of an arrow, ought, must, should be, expected

Kun
はずやはず
On
カツ
Strokes
12
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
bamboo

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
2-6-6SKIP code
6f6.10The Kanji Dictionary
8860.4Four corner code
7b48Unicode hex code
1-40-06JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3387Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4277New Nelson (John Haig)
3318Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2336Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2646Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2688Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
25990Morohashi
gua1Pinyin reading
gwalKorean reading