Kanji N1

尾: tail, end, counter for fish

尾 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning tail, end, counter for fish, written with 7 strokes. It is read ビ (on) and お (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 尾 (お, tail) and 尻尾 (しっぽ, tail).

尾

Meanings

  • tail
  • end
  • counter for fish
  • lower slope of mountain
Strokes7
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#875 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ビ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • お

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 尾

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 尾お

    tail (of an animal); cauda

    JLPT N1
  • 尻尾しっぽ

    tail (of an animal)

    JLPT N2
  • 尾根おね

    (mountain) ridge

  • 末尾まつび

    end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)

  • 最後尾さいこうび

    end (e.g. of a line); tail end; rear

  • 首尾しゅび

    beginning and end; from beginning to end

  • 尾行びこう

    shadow; tail; following

  • 交尾こうび

    copulation (among animals); mating; treading

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.