459 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
354 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
334 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
355 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
361 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
520 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
301 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
129 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
120 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
120 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
415 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
60 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
39 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
22 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
23 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
970 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
370 | Morohashi |
35 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
122 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
961 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1034 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
172 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
255 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
543 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 他 【タ】 other (esp. people and abstract matters)
- 他国 【タコク】 foreign country, other country, another province, strange land, alien land
- 自他 【ジタ】 oneself and others, subject and object, transitivity, transitive and intransitive verbs, first person and third person, self-salvation and salvation by faith
- 排他 【ハイタ】 exclusion
Kun reading compounds
- 他 【ほか】 another place, some other place, somewhere else, outside, another (person or thing), other, different, something else, someone else, the rest, et al., beyond (one's expectations, imagination, etc.), outside, except, but, other than, apart from, besides, in addition to, as well as, on top of
- 他に 【ほかに】 else, in addition, besides
- 思いのほか 【おもいのほか】 unexpectedly, surprisingly
- 殊の外 【ことのほか】 exceedingly, extremely, exceptionally, unusually, unexpectedly
Readings
- Korean:
- ta
Spanish
- otro
- los demás
Portuguese
- outro
- outrem
- os outros
French
- autre
- un autre
- les autres
2156 | 2001 Kanji |
2a3.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-2-3 | SKIP code |
2421.2 | Four corner code |
1-34-30 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
4ed6 | Unicode hex code |
生
life, genuine, birth
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生育 【セイイク】 birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding
- 回生 【カイセイ】 resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student
- 公衆衛生 【コウシュウエイセイ】 public health, public hygiene, sanitation
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生家 【セイカ】 house where one was born, one's parents' house
- 殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal
- 死生 【シセイ】 life and death
Kun reading compounds
- 生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
- 生きる糧 【いきるかて】 source of vitality, life sustenance
- 生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
- 生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
- 生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
- 生う 【おう】 to grow (of plants), to spring up
- 生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
- 生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to let grow (e.g. weeds)
- 生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
- 生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up, uncoated metal
- 死に生き 【しにいき】 death and life, death or life, death
- 生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), raw, bareback, live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, blank (e.g. disk), unused, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory, cash, tipsiness
- 生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
- お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
- 現ナマ 【げんナマ】 cold cash, hard cash
- 生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
- 生す 【なす】 to have a child
- 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
- Korean:
- saeng
Spanish
- vida
- nacimiento
- vivir
- existir
- nacer
- dar a luz
- puro
- crudo
Portuguese
- vida
- genuína
- nascimento
French
- vie
- naissance
- authentique
- cru
34 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
44 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
42 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
29 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
2991 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
67 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
71 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
214 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.4 | Japanese for Busy People |
44 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
44 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
49 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1327 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4309 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2179 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2933 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1569 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
21670 | Morohashi |
3497 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3715 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1555 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1675 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
9 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
43 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2472 | 2001 Kanji |
0a5.29 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-5-2 | SKIP code |
2510.0 | Four corner code |
1-32-24 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
751f | Unicode hex code |
affinity, relation, connection, edge, border, verge, brink
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1291 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 縁 【エン】 fate, destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together), relationship (e.g. between two people), bond, link, connection, family ties, affinity, opportunity, chance (to meet someone and start a relationship), pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes), narrow open-air veranda
- 縁起 【エンギ】 omen, sign of luck, origin, history, causation, dependent arising, doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
- 遠縁 【トオエン】 distant relative
- 内縁 【ナイエン】 de facto marriage, common-law marriage
Kun reading compounds
- 縁 【ふち】 rim, brim, edge, brink
- 縁石 【えんせき】 curb (stone), kerb
- 盆の縁 【ぼんのふち】 edge of a tray
- 縁取る 【ふちどる】 to border, to fringe, to hem, to edge
- 縁 【ゆかり】 connection (to a person, place, etc.), relation, affinity
- 縁の色 【ゆかりのいろ】 violet
- 縁 【よすが】 something to rely on, aid, clue, way, means, someone to rely on, relative, reminder, memento
- 縁 【へり】 edge (of a river, woods, etc.), shoulder (of a road), rim, brim, hem, margin, fringe, selvage, fabric border (of a tatami mat, etc.), edging
- 縁石 【えんせき】 curb (stone), kerb
- 縁 【えん】 fate, destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together), relationship (e.g. between two people), bond, link, connection, family ties, affinity, opportunity, chance (to meet someone and start a relationship), pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes), narrow open-air veranda
Readings
- Korean:
- yeon, dan
Spanish
- afinidad
- relación
- conexión
- borde
- frontera
- margen
Portuguese
- afinidade
- relação
- conexão
- margem
- borda
- limite
- extremidade
French
- affinité
- relation
- karma
- rapport
- bord
- bordure
1030 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1362 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3585 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1244 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1641 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
2660 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1131 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1183 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
732 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1548 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
1754 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
940 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1269 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1384 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
27656P | Morohashi |
1386 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
4553 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1372 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1472 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1790 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2751 | 2001 Kanji |
6a9.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-6-9 | SKIP code |
2793.2 | Four corner code |
1-17-79 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
7e01 | Unicode hex code |