# 質 — Quality

Frequency rank 287 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 校 (School), less common than 命 (Fate).

- On’yomi: しつ、しち
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 貝 Shell (Kangxi 154)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

The buyer drives his Axe through the crate lid and the shellfish inside clamp shut hard enough to turn the blade, and only those get stamped Quality; the ones that gape open go back over the side with the ice.

In words:

- 質問 しつもん — question
- 質 しつ — quality,nature (of person)
- 質疑 しつぎ — question

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