Character · Nature
石
いし ishiいしばし ishibashiいっせき issekiやけいし yakeishi
stone
Composition
Origin
A block of rock lying at the foot of a cliff (厂): stone.
In the thoughts
- 石橋ishibashistone bridge
- 一石issekione stone
- 焼け石yakeishiburning stone
- 石垣ishigakistone walls
Proverbs carrying this character
- 001 石の上にも三年 Even a stone grows warm if you sit on it for three years.
- 006 雨垂れ石を穿つ Dripping water wears through stone.
- 022 石橋を叩いて渡る Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it.
- 069 一石二鳥 One stone, two birds.
- 144 焼け石に水 Water on a burning stone.
- 201 人は城、人は石垣、人は堀 People are the castle, people are the walls, people are the moat.
- 232 春や昔十五万石の城下かな Spring — long ago, a proud castle town of a hundred fifty thousand koku.