Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
call, call out to, invite
Kun:
よ.ぶ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
498 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 呼吸 【コキュウ】 breathing, respiration, knack, trick, secret (of doing something), harmony, balance, synchronization, accord, short interval, short pause
  • 呼応 【コオウ】 hailing each other, acting in concert, responding (to), sympathizing (with), agreement, concord
  • 連呼 【レンコ】 calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name), pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
  • 点呼 【テンコ】 roll-call, muster

Kun reading compounds

  • 呼ぶ 【よぶ】 to call out (to), to call, to invoke, to summon (a doctor, etc.), to invite, to designate, to name, to brand, to garner (support, etc.), to gather, to take as one's wife
  • 呼子鳥 【よぶこどり】 calling bird (esp. a cuckoo)

Readings

Japanese names:
よぶ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu1
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • llamar
  • aspirar

Portuguese

  • chamada
  • chamar para
  • convidar

French

  • appeler
  • inviter
867 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
856 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
640 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
914 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1000 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
410 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
571 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1254 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1325 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
197 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
301 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
324 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
205 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
246 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1497 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3471 Morohashi
273 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
769 New Nelson (John Haig)
1485 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1597 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
862 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3747 2001 Kanji
3d5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
6204.9 Four corner code
1-24-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
547c Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
discard, throw away, abandon, resign, reject, sacrifice
Kun:
す.てる
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1266 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 捨 【シャ】 equanimity, upeksa, upekkha
  • 捨象 【シャショウ】 abstraction
  • 取捨 【シュシャ】 adoption or rejection, selection, choice, option
  • 用捨 【ヨウシャ】 adoption or rejection, selection, choice, leniency, mercy, going easy (on someone)

Kun reading compounds

  • 捨てる 【すてる】 to throw away, to cast away, to dump, to discard, to abandon, to desert, to leave, to give up, to resign
  • 捨てる神あれば拾う神あり 【すてるかみあればひろうかみあり】 when one door is shut, another is open, the world is as kind as it is cruel, there are gods that will abandon you and there are gods that will pick you up

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
she3, she4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • descartar
  • tirar
  • arrojar
  • abandonar
  • limosna
  • donación

Portuguese

  • descarte
  • gastar
  • desembaraçar
  • pedir demissão
  • rejeitado
  • sacrifício

French

  • jeter
  • mettre au rebut
  • abandonner
  • démissionner
  • rejet
  • sacrifice
894 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
883 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1223 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1944 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1424 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
573 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1324 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1444 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1537 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
285 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
901 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
608 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
369 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
461 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
662 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12191P Morohashi
501 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2205 New Nelson (John Haig)
655 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
707 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
923 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1377 2001 Kanji
3c8.26 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
5806.1 Four corner code
1-28-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6368 Unicode hex code