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Readings

Kana: ハク、かす
Romaji: haku, kasu
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

scrap, waste

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  11
Radical Number:  119
Frequency:  1905
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-6-5
Korean Reading:  bag
Chinese Reading:  po4
Unicode:  7c95
JIS:  4774

Indexes

Nelson Index: 3470
New Nelson Index: 4391
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 6b5.3
Four Corner Index: 9690.0
Daikanwanjiten Index: 26891
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 8.0892
Remembering the kanji Index: 2648
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 2690

Words

(かす、カス)
dregs; sediment; grounds; meal; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; thing of little to no value; dregs (e.g. of society); scum; dross; card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda)
〆粕 (しめかす)
oil cake; scrap cake
食べカス (たべかす、たべカス)
leavings of a meal; food scraps; leftovers; food particles (in one's teeth or mouth); bits of food
酒かす (さけかす)
sake lees
粕取り (かすとり)
shochu made from sake lees; low-quality moonshine (esp. post-WWII); hooch (hootch)
甘粕 (あまかす)
thick amazake; thick sweet sake
糟汁 (かすじる)
soup made with sake lees
大豆粕 (だいずかす)
soybean cake
豆粕 (まめかす)
bean cake; soybean (oil) meal
粕漬け (かすづけ)
(fish or vegetables) pickled in sake lees
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