Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
catalpa tree, woodblock printing
Kun:
あずさ
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2301 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 梓 【アズサ】 Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa), yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata), Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus), printing block, catalpa bow, catalpa medium
  • 梓宮 【シキュウ】 Emperor's coffin (made of catalpa wood)
  • 上梓 【ジョウシ】 wood-block printing, publication

Kun reading compounds

  • 梓 【あずさ】 Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa), yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata), Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus), printing block, catalpa bow, catalpa medium
  • 梓巫女 【あずさみこ】 female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3
Korean:
jae, ja

Spanish

  • árbol del catalpa

Portuguese

French

  • catalpa
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2688 New Nelson (John Haig)
1498 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1614 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-7 SKIP code
4094.1 Four corner code
1-16-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6893 Unicode hex code