Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
ice
Parts:
Variants:
be clear, serene, cold, skilful
Kun:
さ.えるこお.るひ.える
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2341 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 冴寒 【ゴカン】 extreme cold

Kun reading compounds

  • 冴える 【さえる】 to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.), to be bright, to be vivid, to be crisp, to be clear-headed, to be alert, to be on the ball, to be wide awake, to look upbeat, to be perky, to be cheerful, to master (a skill), to excel at, to cleanly execute, to be satisfying, to become frigid, to become intensely cold

Readings

Japanese names:
さえ、 さえる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu4
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • congelarse bruscamente

Portuguese

French

635 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
348 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2023 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
87 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
56 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
60 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1615 Morohashi
79 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
417 New Nelson (John Haig)
2134 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2261 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2b5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
3114.0 Four corner code
1-26-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51b4 Unicode hex code