Japanese word

背

せ

In your course · Chapter 13

Part of speech: noun
Level: A2
Frequency: No. 903 in the course corpus

Meanings

height (of a person)
back
reverse
rear side
back (e.g. of a chair)
spine (of a book)
height
stature
ridge (of a mountain)

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Kanji

背
On reading:
ハイ
Kun reading:
せ、せい、そむ.く、そむ.ける
Meanings:
stature, height, back, behind, disobey, defy, go back on, rebel

Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))