Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:
entrust, request, send a message
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1903 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 嘱託 【ショクタク】 commission, entrusting with (work), part-time employee, temporary work
  • 嘱望 【ショクボウ】 having great hopes for (someone's future), expecting much of, pinning one's hopes on
  • 委嘱 【イショク】 commissioning, entrusting (with), request, appointment (to a position)
  • 遺嘱 【イショク】 dying wish (to be carried out after one's death)

Kun reading compounds

  • 嘱する 【しょくする】 to entrust (someone) with, to pin one's hopes on (someone's future), to have great expectations for, to have (someone) deliver (a letter, etc.), to leave (a message), to send word

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu3
Korean:
chog

Spanish

  • confiar
  • solicitar
  • pedir
  • esperar

Portuguese

  • confiar
  • solicitação
  • enviar uma mensagem

French

  • charger de
  • appartenir
  • demander
  • envoyer un message
1429 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1890 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
989 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1297 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1144 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1638 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1751 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1437 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
311 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
881 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
506 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
650 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1973 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4249 Morohashi
718 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
894 New Nelson (John Haig)
1954 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2104 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1748 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3753 2001 Kanji
3d12.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
6702.7 Four corner code
1-30-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5631 Unicode hex code