# 椎 — Spine

Frequency rank 2030 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Rarer in this ranking, but still part of the 2,608-character published set.

More common than 儒 (Confucian scholar), less common than 窟 (Hole).

- On’yomi: つい
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 木 Tree (Kangxi 75)
- Frequency path: Level XVI of XX

A tree on the left grows beside a bird on the right — a bird perched on a tree's central trunk, the spine of the tree running straight up like a backbone.

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