EntryCommonJLPT N4WaniKani 6
  1. Noun

    neck

    その首と頭部はとてもやわらかかった。
    Its neck and head were very soft.
  2. head

  3. dismissal (from a job); firing; sacking

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 頸【くび】頚【くび】馘【くび】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

neck, counter for songs and poems

Kun
くび
On
シュ
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N3
Frequency
98 of 2500
Radical
head
WaniKani
Level 6

Built from

Used in names as

おびとこべ

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-3-6SKIP code
2o7.2The Kanji Dictionary
8060.1Four corner code
979deroo
9996Unicode hex code
1-28-83JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5186Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6719New Nelson (John Haig)
2265New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2818Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1452Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1956Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
70Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
74Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
208A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
920Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
138Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
44489Morohashi
139A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
148Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
148Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
239sakade
281Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
155henshall3
177Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
393Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1910Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
70Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
shou3Pinyin reading
suKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level