尾

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部首ぶしゅ: しかばねだれ(尸)

Meaning

Tail / End

  • — tail
  • 尾行びこう — tailing; following someone
  • 尾根おね — ridge; mountain ridge
  • 尾灯びとう — tail light
  • 交尾こうび — mating; copulation
  • 語尾ごび — word ending; sentence ending
  • 首尾しゅび — beginning and end; course of events
  • 船尾せんび — stern of a ship; aft
  • 末尾まつび — end; final part; ending
  • く — to leave lingering effects; to drag on

With the radical しかばね suggesting a body on top and (fur) below, paints the image of hair or flesh trailing behind the main body — a tail, and by extension the “after-part” or end of something.

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