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冬

5 strokes
Radical:
ice 冫
Parts:
丶 夂 攵
winter
Kun:
ふゆ
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
1090 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 冬季 【トウキ】 (season of) winter
  • 冬期 【トウキ】 winter, wintertime, winter term
  • 越冬 【エットウ】 passing the winter, hibernation
  • 春夏秋冬 【シュンカシュウトウ】 spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter, the four seasons

Kun reading compounds

  • 冬 【ふゆ】 winter
  • 冬場 【ふゆば】 wintertime, winter season
  • 初冬 【しょとう】 early winter, tenth month of the lunar calendar
  • 毎冬 【まいふゆ】 every winter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dong1
Korean:
dong

Spanish

  • invierno

Portuguese

  • Inverno

French

  • hiver
120 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
199 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
182 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
903 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1161 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
165 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
125 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
161 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.8 Japanese for Busy People
459 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
467 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
99 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
399 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2679 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1365 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1851 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
434 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1610X Morohashi
2157 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
410 New Nelson (John Haig)
427 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
456 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
112 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2540 2001 Kanji
4i2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-2 SKIP code
4-5-1 SKIP code
2730.3 Four corner code
1-37-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51ac Unicode hex code

至

6 strokes
Radical:
arrive 至
Parts:
一 厶 土 至
climax, arrive, proceed, reach, attain, result in
Kun:
いた.る
On:
シ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
996 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 至 【シ】 to (a place), until (a time)
  • 至上 【シジョウ】 supremacy
  • 必至 【ヒッシ】 inevitable, necessary, foregone, brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
  • 夏至 【ゲシ】 summer solstice

Kun reading compounds

  • 至る 【いたる】 to arrive at (e.g. a decision), to reach (a stage), to attain, to lead to (a place), to get to, in the extreme case of, to come, to arrive, to result in
  • 至る所 【いたるところ】 everywhere, all over, throughout

Readings

Japanese names:
のぶ、 のり、 みち、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhi4
Korean:
ji

Spanish

  • llegar
  • alcanzar
  • apogeo
  • clímax

Portuguese

  • clímax
  • chegar
  • continuar
  • alcançar
  • atingir
  • resultar em

French

  • aboutissement
  • paroxysme
  • solstice
  • atteindre
  • arriver à
  • direction
  • résultat
796 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
886 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
875 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1093 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3845 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
725 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1685 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
485 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
902 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
924 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1198 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1589 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2707 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1382 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1869 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
760 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30142 Morohashi
2182 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4903 New Nelson (John Haig)
753 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
815 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
475 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
845 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3172 2001 Kanji
3b3.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
1010.4 Four corner code
1-27-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81f3 Unicode hex code

生

5 strokes
Radical:
life 生
Parts:
生
life, genuine, birth
Kun:
い.きる、 い.かす、 い.ける、 う.まれる、 うま.れる、 う.まれ、 うまれ、 う.む、 お.う、 は.える、 は.やす、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う
On:
セイ、 ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 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
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sheng1
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

贄

18 strokes
Radical:
shell 貝
Parts:
丶 亠 ハ 十 九 目 立 貝 辛
offering, sacrifice
Kun:
にえ
On:
シ

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Kun reading compounds

  • 贄 【にえ】 offering (to the gods, emperor, etc.), gift, sacrifice
  • 速贄 【はやにえ】 butcher-bird prey impaled on twigs, thorns, etc. for later consumption, first offering of the season
  • 百舌のはやにえ 【もずのはやにえ】 butcher-bird prey impaled on twigs, thorns, etc. for later consumption

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhi4
Korean:
ji

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4523 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2781 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
36907 Morohashi
5825 New Nelson (John Haig)
7b11.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-11-7 SKIP code
4580.6 Four corner code
4480.6 Four corner code
1-76-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8d04 Unicode hex code