7 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade
JLPT exam level N1

spine, backbone

Kun'yomi
  • せぼね
On'yomi
  • リョ
    bass range (in Japanese music) ②six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ③Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
Nanori
  • とも
  • なが

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Variants

Reading Commonality

63.3%
リョ 36.7%

Character Breakdown

spine, backbone
ロ リョ せぼね (11th, N1)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)
katakana no radical (no. 4)
ヘツ えい よう (Kentei 1)

Contained In

麿

Common Words

bass range (in Japanese music) ②six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ③Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
bath ②bathhouse ③room for drying lacquerware ④base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
standard tones
10th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. B) ②eighth month of the lunar calendar
Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: so, la, ti, do, re, mi, fa), similar to Mixolydian mode
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References

Unicode hex code 5442
JIS X 0208 1-47-4
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 891
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 728
Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary 2187
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 2713
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha) 1385
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 1872
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 24
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 24
Gakken A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage 1509
O'Neill, P.G. Japanese Names 459
O'Neill, P.G. Essential Kanji 1997
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 3386
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana 2036
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 1396
Maniette, Y. Les Kanjis dans la tete 24
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 3d4.16
Four corner code 6060.0