崎 means “cape, promontory”

さき · saki

Also: spit

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

さき, さい, みさき

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

キ

JLPT N1 · Taught in grade 4 · 11 strokes

The story

A mountain (山) beside 奇, strange: rock jutting out where the land should end. 崎 is a cape, and it dots the map from 長崎, Nagasaki, to 川崎, Kawasaki. Some families write it 﨑, with 立 in place of 大.

Used in 長崎 (nagasaki, Nagasaki), 宮崎 (miyazaki, Miyazaki), and 川崎 (kawasaki, Kawasaki)

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