This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

Readings

Kana: テイ、そこ
Romaji: tei, soko
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

bottom, sole, depth, bottom price, base, kind, sort

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  8
Radical Number:  53
Frequency:  867
Grade:  4
Skip Pattern:  3-3-5
Korean Reading:  jeo
Chinese Reading:  de5
Unicode:  5e95
JIS:  446C

Indexes

Halpern Index: 3084
Nelson Index: 1508
New Nelson Index: 1612
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 3q5.3
Four Corner Index: 0024.2
Guide to Remembering Index: 549
Gakken Index: 791
Japanese Names Index: 992
Daikanwanjiten Index: 9262
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 4.0552
Remembering the kanji Index: 1833
Kanji Flashcards Index: 508
Kodansha Compact Index: 585
Read Writing Kanji Third Index: 576
Kanji in Context Index: 745
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 1961
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 2656
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 1850
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 1975
Essential Kanji Index: 590
Kodansha Kanji Index: 3827
Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 556
Read Writing the Kanji Index: 475
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 510

Words

(そこ)
bottom; sole
海底 (かいてい、うなぞこ)
bottom of the ocean; undersea; submarine
徹底的 (てっていてき)
thorough; complete
地底 (ちてい)
depths of the earth
底面 (ていめん)
bottom; underside; base
(てい)
base (logarithmic, exponential, number system); radix; base (triangle, cone, cylinder, etc.); type; kind; extent; degree
徹底 (てってい)
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
基底 (きてい)
base; ground
根底 (こんてい)
root; basis; foundation
到底 (とうてい)
(cannot) possibly; no matter how
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