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Entry

  1. Noun or verb acting prenominally

    pointed; sharp

    see 尖る

    きつつきは、長く尖ったくちばしで、木の幹をつついて、中にいる虫を食べます。
    Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.

  2. sharp (voice, words, etc.); harsh; angry; on edge (nerves)

  3. provocative; radical; rebellious

  4. outstanding; cutting edge; superior

Also written 尖がった【とがった】

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Characters in this word

1
尖
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

be pointed, sharp, taper, displeased, angry, edgy

Kun
とが.るさきするど.い
On
セン
Strokes
6
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2133 of 2500
Radical
小 small

Built from

小大
Words starting with 尖Words ending in 尖Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-3-3SKIP code
3n3.1The Kanji Dictionary
9043.0Four corner code
5c16Unicode hex code
1-32-77JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1357Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1393New Nelson (John Haig)
2176New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2700Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1864Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2903Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2912Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7480Morohashi
jian1Pinyin reading
cheomKorean reading