Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
ice
Parts:
cool, cold (beer, person), chill
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
667 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 冷 【レイ】 refrigerator, cold, cool, cold sake
  • 冷夏 【レイカ】 cool summer, cold summer, cooler-than-normal summer
  • 寒冷 【カンレイ】 cold, coldness, chilliness
  • 空冷 【クウレイ】 air cooling

Kun reading compounds

  • 冷たい 【つめたい】 cold (to the touch), chilly, icy, freezing, (emotionally) cold, coldhearted, unfeeling, indifferent, unfriendly, distant
  • 冷たい暗黒物質 【つめたいあんこくぶっしつ】 cold dark matter
  • 冷える 【ひえる】 to grow cold (from room temperature, e.g. in refrigerator), to get chilly, to cool down
  • 冷や 【ひや】 cold water, cold sake, cold, cool, chilled, unheated
  • 冷やす 【ひやす】 to cool (from room temperature), to chill, to refrigerate, to calm down, to cool off, to regain one's composure, to relax, to be frightened (at), to be scared (of)
  • お冷 【おひや】 cold (drinking) water, (glass of) cold water, cold boiled rice
  • 冷ややか 【ひややか】 cold, chilly, cool, cold (attitude, stare, etc.), frigid, indifferent, distant, surly, curt, composed, cool, calm
  • 冷やす 【ひやす】 to cool (from room temperature), to chill, to refrigerate, to calm down, to cool off, to regain one's composure, to relax, to be frightened (at), to be scared (of)
  • 冷やかす 【ひやかす】 to banter, to make fun of, to jeer at, to cool, to refrigerate, to window-shop, to look at without buying
  • 冷める 【さめる】 to cool down, to get cold, to cool off (excitement, temper, etc.), to subside, to dampen, to fade, to wane, to be cold (eyes, expression, etc.), to be composed
  • 冷ます 【さます】 to cool (e.g. from a high temperature to room temperature), to let cool, to dampen, to throw a damper on, to spoil

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
leng3
Korean:
raeng

Spanish

  • frío
  • enfriar
  • enfriarse
  • helarse
  • helar

Portuguese

  • fresco
  • frio (cerveja
  • pessoa)
  • calafrio

French

  • froid
  • fraîche (bière)
  • froide (personne)
  • refroidir
535 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
634 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
604 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
607 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
642 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
792 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
348 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
349 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
832 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
851 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
662 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
166 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
88 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
57 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
61 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1416 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1622 Morohashi
80 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
419 New Nelson (John Haig)
1404 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1506 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
493 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
344 2001 Kanji
2b5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
3812.7 Four corner code
1-46-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51b7 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
kneel
Parts:
Variants:
instead, on the contrary, rather, step back, withdraw, retreat
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
959 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 焼却 【ショウキャク】 incineration, destroy by fire
  • 償却 【ショウキャク】 repayment, redemption, depreciation, amortization, amortisation

Kun reading compounds

  • 却って 【かえって】 on the contrary, rather, instead, all the more
  • 退ける 【しりぞける】 to refuse, to reject, to turn down, to dismiss, to repel, to repulse, to drive away, to beat off, to defeat, to make (someone) leave, to send away, to turn away, to force (someone) to leave their post, to oust, to remove, to expel

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
que4
Korean:
gag

Spanish

  • retirarse
  • echarse atrás
  • rechazar

Portuguese

  • ao invés
  • ao contrário
  • melhor

French

  • au lieu de
  • au contraire
  • plutôt
1145 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1252 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
808 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1680 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1114 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1783 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1915 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1616 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
252 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1436 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
761 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1034 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1407 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2856 Morohashi
1118 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
631 New Nelson (John Haig)
1395 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1497 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1101 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1444 2001 Kanji
2e5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
4772.0 Four corner code
1-21-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5374 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
lumber, log, timber, wood, materials, ingredients, talent
On:
ザイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
565 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 材 【ザイ】 wood, lumber, timber, (raw) material, stuff, talent, ability, capable person
  • 材質 【ザイシツ】 material, material properties, quality of material, quality of wood, quality of lumber
  • 器材 【キザイ】 tools and materials, equipment and materials
  • 廃材 【ハイザイ】 scrap wood, waste wood, waste, waste material, scrap material

Readings

Japanese names:
き、 さい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cai2
Korean:
jae

Spanish

  • talento
  • habilidad
  • material
  • leño

Portuguese

  • tábuas
  • registro
  • pau
  • madeira
  • talento

French

  • matériaux
  • ingrédients
  • bois de charpente
  • bille de bois
  • bûche
  • talent
403 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
511 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
485 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
590 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2189 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
284 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
619 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
420 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
552 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
561 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
740 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1071 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1031 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
560 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
740 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
690 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14463 Morohashi
836 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2561 New Nelson (John Haig)
683 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
738 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
481 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1847 2001 Kanji
4a3.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4490.0 Four corner code
1-26-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6750 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
miss, mourning
Kun:
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
885 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 喪 【モ】 mourning, calamity, misfortune
  • 喪失 【ソウシツ】 loss, forfeit
  • 大喪 【タイソウ】 funeral service of a Japanese emperor, Imperial mourning
  • 国喪 【コクソウ】 national mourning

Kun reading compounds

  • 喪 【も】 mourning, calamity, misfortune
  • 喪主 【もしゅ】 chief mourner
  • 服喪 【ふくも】 going into mourning

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sang1, sang4
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • perder
  • perder a alguien

Portuguese

  • perda
  • luto

French

  • perte
  • deuil
1522 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1614 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
117 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1572 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1141 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1678 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1793 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1807 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
332 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3504 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1807 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2459 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1945 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3985 Morohashi
2825 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
853 New Nelson (John Haig)
1926 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2076 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1510 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1465 2001 Kanji
3b9.20 The Kanji Dictionary
2-9-3 SKIP code
2-2-11 SKIP code
4073.2 Four corner code
1-33-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
55aa Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
lose, error, fault, disadvantage, loss
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
447 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 失 【シツ】 loss (of something), disadvantage, mistake, error, failure, flaw, defect, error
  • 失業 【シツギョウ】 unemployment, losing one's job, becoming unemployed
  • 得失 【トクシツ】 advantages and disadvantages, plus and minuses
  • 敵失 【テキシツ】 error made by the enemy or opposing team

Kun reading compounds

  • 失う 【うしなう】 to lose, to miss (a chance, opportunity), to lose (a loved one), to be bereaved of, to concede (goals, points, etc.)
  • 失せる 【うせる】 to disappear, to vanish, to fade away, to go, to leave, to die

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi1
Korean:
sil

Spanish

  • pérdida
  • error
  • defecto
  • fallo
  • perder
  • malograr
  • errar

Portuguese

  • erro
  • falta
  • desvantagem
  • perda

French

  • perdre
  • erreur
  • faute
  • désavantage
418 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
529 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
501 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
523 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
178 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
238 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
447 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.13 Japanese for Busy People
311 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
311 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
594 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
413 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4325 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2189 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2947 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
853 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5844 Morohashi
3511 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1141 New Nelson (John Haig)
845 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
908 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
346 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
452 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2463 2001 Kanji
0a5.28 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-4 SKIP code
2503.0 Four corner code
1-28-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5931 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
Variants:
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kun:
ことつか.うつか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
  • 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
  • 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
  • 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency

Kun reading compounds

  • 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
  • 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
  • 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cosa
  • hecho
  • asunto
  • acción

Portuguese

  • matéria
  • coisa
  • fato
  • negócios
  • razão
  • possivelmente

French

  • fait
  • chose
  • matière
  • affaire
  • raison
  • peut-être
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
309 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
293 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
272 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
73 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
108 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
768 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
80 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
30 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4384 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
241 Morohashi
3567 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 New Nelson (John Haig)
1156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
300 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1547 2001 Kanji
0a8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
5000.7 Four corner code
1-27-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e8b Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
rap 攴 (攵)
Parts:
happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently
Kun:
ゆえふる.いもと
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
612 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 故 【コ】 the late, the deceased
  • 殊更 【コトサラ】 intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, especially, particularly
  • 物故 【ブッコ】 death (of a person)
  • 人身事故 【ジンシンジコ】 accident resulting in personal injury or death (esp. traffic, rail, etc.)

Kun reading compounds

  • 故 【ゆえ】 reason, cause, circumstances
  • 故に 【ゆえに】 therefore, consequently
  • 何故 【なにゆえ】 why
  • 古い 【ふるい】 old, aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, timeworn, long, since long ago, time-honored, of the distant past, long-ago, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, corny, old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date
  • 元 【もと】 former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu4
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • antiguo
  • intencionadamente
  • excepcional
  • razón
  • difunto
  • causa
  • circunstancias

Portuguese

  • casualidade
  • especialmente
  • intencionalmente
  • razão
  • causa
  • circunstâncias
  • portanto
  • consequentemente

French

  • coïncidence
  • spécialement
  • intentionnellement
  • raison
  • cause
  • circonstances
  • destin
  • feu ... (défunt)
  • c'est pour ça que...
778 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
694 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
668 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
455 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2044 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
707 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
587 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
880 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
173 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
173 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
722 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
936 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1466 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
778 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1056 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
339 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13161 Morohashi
1141 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2334 New Nelson (John Haig)
333 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
355 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
697 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1566 2001 Kanji
4i5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-4 SKIP code
4864.0 Four corner code
1-24-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6545 Unicode hex code