Saturday 15 February 2014

ON-yomi SEKI and SHAKU

  
These 4 of the 20 common ON-yomi SEKI kanji are also SHAKU kanji :
 

石     stone;       いし    コク    シャク    セキ      


赤     red;       あか    あか-    あか.い    あか.らむ    あか.らめる    シャク    セキ       


昔     antiquity;   old times;   once upon a time;       シャク    セキ    むかし            


釈     explanation;       シャク    す.てる    セキ    とく    ゆる.す       

 per kanjidic2 there are only 9 common kanji with ON-yomi of シャク - and only 8 have a newspaper frequency < 2500 ( SHAKU itself is an ON-yomi-ONLY kanji.)



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