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Learn Japanese: line; stick - 丨

Japanese
/Kanji 2
/line; stick

line; stick

Word

line; stick

Meaning

丨 ^component

Part of speech

kanji component

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of line; stick

upside down box

This clearly looks like an upside down box. Doesn't it?

This obviously is a lid. Just look at it!

Nihon-shiki romanizationwatasi ha tyuugoku kara kimasita

Hepburn romanizationwatashi wa chuugoku kara kimashita

車

Looks like a car doesn't it? With a line connecting two axles that the wheels are connected to, and an engine(the sun) in the middle.

fortune-telling

To tell your fortune, connect the line to the dot, and the path appears.

Above the middle of your mouth there's a line called the philtrum.

When you were small, a line started appearing on your head and then two horns grew out. Doctors still don't understand.

This kanji looks like an I-beam used in construction work.

You make a knife using a line and a hook.

To harvest bamboo, you need two guns, a line and a hook.

The balloon is going up. Luckily you've attached a line to it in order to stop it.

A crown covers the head, lined with jewels.

Two horns are too many, so you draw a line through them to split them in half.

To enforce your dismissal from the family, your older brother runs after you with a sword and a stick.

This kanji just looks like a gate.

You've got an upside down box with a stick and a towel.

line; stick ^component

During your yoga class, you have to bend three ways while balancing on a stick.

You hang just two pieces of clothing on the line such that they become dry more quickly.

You see a gentleman carrying a flag with a stick symbol. He starts raising his voice.

People in Asia eat by bringing two sticks to their mouth.

You take your sword and stick it in the moon, and show it the four corners of the Earth.

The stick needs three clothes to be covered. It's long.

A line by itself is already art.

If you just write down a small line, it already looks like a comma.

The big L to the left is carrying the world, which is the container of everything.

You pull your bow using a stick.

A scratch is a line left behind by a claw.

ヰ is an obsolete katakana character, previously used to represent the sound wi.

Now, the sound wi is represented by the digraph ウィ(Ui).

Though ヰ is not used as a katakana character anymore, it does appear as a component in multiple Kanji.

This stick has ice on its left side.

There's a line of shells showing the way to the rice paddy.

𠃊 ^component

A shelf is basically one line on which you can put stuff.

In the weeds, some claws are concurrently drawing two lines that look like animal legs.

If you hold the one line high enough, everything will be under it.

You see a stick in a rice paddy, and know it must've been put there for a reason.

You line up two sticks with horns.

You take someone out with your bow and your stick, and then offer your condolences.

A tea stick with a drop on it is not what you want.

You bend your claw twice, then stick it in the air to stretch it.

You dedicate yourself to dividing two sticks between three people.

You poke a tortoise's shell with a stick. The tortoise begins to speak humbly to you.

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