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Bushu (Radical) Info: 尸 (しかばね) – flag

Henshall Mnemonic: arrive and find corpse in store building

Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #616 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 部屋   [へや]
  (n) room   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 八百屋   [やおや]
  (n) greengrocer   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 床屋   [とこや]
  (n) barber   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 屋上   [おくじょう]
  (n) rooftop   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 屋根   [やね]
  (n) roof   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 小屋   [こや]
  (n) hut; cabin; shed; (animal) pen   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 家屋   [かおく]
  (n) house; building   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 屋外   [おくがい]
  (n) outdoors   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 問屋   [とんや]
  (n) wholesale store   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 屋敷   [やしき]
  (n) mansion   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 大屋   [おおや]
  (n) landlord; landlady   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 居酒屋   [いざかや]
  (n) bar; pub; tavern   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 靴屋   [くつや]
  (n) shoemaker; shoe store   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 本屋   [ほんや]
  (n) (1) bookstore; bookshop; (2) publisher; (3) main building   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 土建屋   [どけんや]
  (n) general (civil engineering and construction) contractor   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 魚屋   [さかなや]
  (n) fish market; fish dealer   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 納屋   [なや]
  (n) shed; barn; outhouse   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 肉屋   [にくや]
  (n) butcher   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 風呂屋   [ふろや]
  (n) public bath   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 酒屋   [さかや]
  (n) sake dealer   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 料理屋   [りょうりや]
  (n) restaurant   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 屋台   [やたい]
  (n) cart; float; food cart   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 屋内   [おくない]
  (n) indoor (court, pool, etc)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 山小屋   [やまごや]
  (n) mountain hut   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 茶屋   [ちゃや]
  (n) tea house; tea dealer   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 長屋   [ながや]
  (n) tenement or row house   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社屋   [しゃおく]
  (n) company office building   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 煙草屋   [たばこや]
  (n) tobacconist   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 不動産屋   [ふどうさんや]
  real estate agent; realtor   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 紺屋   [こうや]
  (n) dyer   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 紺屋   [こんや]
  (n) dyer   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 芝居小屋   [しばいごや]
  playhouse; theatre   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 宿屋   [やどや]
  (n) inn   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 菓子屋   [かしや]
  (n) confectionery shop   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 質屋   [しちや]
  (n) pawnshop   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 屋 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC

Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.