Jisho

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背

9 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
匕 月 爿
stature, height, back, behind, disobey, defy, go back on, rebel
Kun:
せ、 せい、 そむ.く、 そむ.ける
On:
ハイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
696 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 背後 【ハイゴ】 back, rear, background, behind the scenes
  • 背景 【ハイケイ】 background, scenery, backdrop, setting, background (of an incident, situation, etc.), circumstances, context, backing, support (from behind the scenes)
  • 違背 【イハイ】 violation, transgression
  • 向背 【コウハイ】 one's attitude, state of affairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 背 【せ】 back, reverse, rear side, back (e.g. of a chair), spine (of a book), height, stature, ridge (of a mountain)
  • 背 【せい】 height, stature
  • 膝皿貝 【ひざらがい】 chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora), sea cradle, Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)
  • 角背 【かくせ】 flat back (book spine), square back
  • 背 【せい】 height, stature
  • 背丈 【せたけ】 stature, height
  • 背く 【そむく】 to run counter to, to go against, to disobey, to infringe
  • 背ける 【そむける】 to turn (one's face) away, to avert (one's eyes)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei4, bei1
Korean:
bae, pae

Spanish

  • espalda
  • detrás
  • estatura
  • desobedecer
  • infringir
  • rebelarse

Portuguese

  • estatura
  • altura
  • costas
  • atrás
  • desobedecer
  • desafiar
  • quebrar promesum
  • rebelar

French

  • stature
  • taille
  • dos
  • arrière
  • désobéir
  • défier
  • revenir sur
  • se rebeller
967 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
957 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
796 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3754 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
933 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
845 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
957 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1265 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1338 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1085 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1017 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3182 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1641 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2230 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
455 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29363 Morohashi
2573 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4794 New Nelson (John Haig)
446 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
481 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
893 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1246 2001 Kanji
4b5.15 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
1222.7 Four corner code
1122.7 Four corner code
1-39-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80cc Unicode hex code

赤

7 strokes
Radical:
red, naked 赤
Parts:
土 赤
red
Kun:
あか、 あか-、 あか.い、 あか.らむ、 あか.らめる
On:
セキ、 シャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
584 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 赤軍 【セキグン】 Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946), Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Japanese Red Army, JRA
  • 赤外線 【セキガイセン】 infrared rays, infrared radiation
  • 七赤 【シチセキ】 seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west)
  • 日赤 【ニッセキ】 Japanese Red Cross Society (abbr), Nisseki
  • 赤銅 【シャクドウ】 shakudo, gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
  • 赤銅色 【シャクドウイロ】 brown, tan

Kun reading compounds

  • 赤 【あか】 red, crimson, scarlet, red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange), Red (i.e. communist), red light (traffic), red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red, complete, total, perfect, obvious, copper, red 5-point card
  • 銅 【どう】 copper (Cu), bronze (medal)
  • 紅赤 【べにあか】 beniaka, variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh; product of the Kawagoe region, bright red tinged with yellow
  • 真赤 【まあか】 bright red, deep red
  • 赤い 【あかい】 red, crimson, scarlet, vermilion, Red, communist
  • 赤色 【あかいろ】 red, red color (colour), communism, the left
  • 赤らむ 【あからむ】 to become red, to redden, to blush
  • 赤らめる 【あからめる】 to blush, to redden

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あこ、 あま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chi4
Korean:
jeog

Spanish

  • rojo
  • enrojecer
  • enrojecerse
  • sonrojarse

Portuguese

  • vermelho

French

  • rouge
35 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
51 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
46 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
476 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4534 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
275 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
254 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
443 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
207 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
207 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
46 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1751 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2719 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1389 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1876 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1759 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36993 Morohashi
2193 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5840 New Nelson (John Haig)
1743 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1880 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
406 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
68 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1441 2001 Kanji
3b4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
4023.1 Four corner code
4033.1 Four corner code
1-32-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8d64 Unicode hex code

栗

10 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
木 西
chestnut
Kun:
くり、 おののく
On:
リツ、 リ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1550 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 戦々慄々 【センセンリツリツ】 trembling with fear, filled with trepidation
  • 栗鼠 【リス】 squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae), Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
  • リス亜目 【リスアモク】 Sciuromorpha (suborder of rodents)
  • 片栗 【カタクリ】 dogtooth violet (Erythronium japonicum)
  • 実栗 【ミクリ】 branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum), simplestem bur-reed

Kun reading compounds

  • 栗 【くり】 Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
  • 栗石 【くりいし】 construction stone (approx. 10-15 cm in diameter), chestnut-sized pebble
  • 片栗 【かたくり】 dogtooth violet (Erythronium japonicum)
  • 実栗 【みくり】 branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum), simplestem bur-reed

Readings

Japanese names:
くる、 りっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ryul

Spanish

  • castaña
  • estricto

Portuguese

French

  • châtaigne
1571 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4275 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1219 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2111 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3280 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1694 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2303 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1623 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14695 Morohashi
2649 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2662 New Nelson (John Haig)
1609 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1735 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a6.32 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
1090.4 Four corner code
1-23-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6817 Unicode hex code

鼠

13 strokes
Radical:
rat, mouse 鼠
Parts:
臼 鼠
Variants:
鼡
rat, mouse, dark gray
Kun:
ねずみ、 ねず
On:
ソ、 ショ

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 鼠疫 【ソエキ】 plague, pest
  • 鼠害 【ソガイ】 damage by rats or mice
  • 海鼠 【ナマコ】 sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
  • 火鼠 【ヒネズミ】 huoshu, fantastical Chinese fire rat

Kun reading compounds

  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, slate gray
  • 鼠穴 【ねずみあな】 rathole, mousehole
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 臭鼠 【においねずみ】 muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
  • 鼠 【ねず】 mouse, rat, dark gray, slate gray
  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, slate gray
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 梅鼠 【うめねず】 grayish pink, rose grey

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu3
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • ratón
  • rata

Portuguese

French

5417 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2430 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3340 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
48390 Morohashi
2693 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7078 New Nelson (John Haig)
2065 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2856 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-7 SKIP code
2-5-7 SKIP code
7771.7 Four corner code
1-33-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9f20 Unicode hex code

猿

13 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
口 土 犯 衣
Variants:
猨
monkey
Kun:
さる
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1772 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 猿人 【エンジン】 ape man
  • 猿害 【エンガイ】 damages inflicted by monkeys (on crops, etc.)
  • 人類猿 【ジンルイエン】 anthropoid ape
  • 孤猿 【コエン】 lone monkey, stray monkey

Kun reading compounds

  • 猿 【さる】 monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata), ape, non-human primate, sly person, idiot, hick, sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut), clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook, bathhouse prostitute
  • 猿尾 【さるお】 backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body
  • 木から落ちた猿 【きからおちたさる】 person who has lost something they used to rely on, a monkey fallen from the tree
  • 真猿 【まさる】 monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata)

Readings

Japanese names:
さ、 さわ、 ざる、 まし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • mono
  • simio

Portuguese

  • Macaco

French

  • singe
1028 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1717 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2905 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1529 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2062 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1584 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1690 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1865 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1308 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
824 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
479 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
612 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
410 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20584 Morohashi
669 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3600 New Nelson (John Haig)
403 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
430 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1648 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2965 2001 Kanji
3g10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
4423.2 Four corner code
1-17-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
733f Unicode hex code