Entry
  1. Noun

    cleaning up someone else's mess; making up for someone else's mistake

    もう君の尻拭いはごめんだ。
    I'm fed up with always backing you up.
  2. ass-wiping; arse-wiping

    literal meaning

Also written 尻ぬぐい【しりぬぐい】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

buttocks, hips, butt, rear

Kun
しり
On
コウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
1692 of 2500
Radical
corpse
WaniKani
Level 20

Built from

Used in names as

がみ

Dictionary and index codes (21)
CodeReference
3-3-2SKIP code
3r2.1The Kanji Dictionary
7721.7Four corner code
3757deroo
5c3bUnicode hex code
1-31-12JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1379Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1407New Nelson (John Haig)
3032New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3766Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2610Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2220Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1134Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1704A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
176Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1884Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
7634Morohashi
2029Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
kao1Pinyin reading
goKorean reading
20WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

wipe, mop, swab

Kun
ぬぐ.うふ.く
On
ショクシキ
Strokes
9
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2421 of 2500
Radical
hand

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
1-3-6SKIP code
3c6.17The Kanji Dictionary
5304.0Four corner code
62edUnicode hex code
1-31-01JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1897Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2144New Nelson (John Haig)
453Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
338Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2254Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
695Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11989Morohashi
1072Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
shi4Pinyin reading
sigKorean reading