Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:
virtuous, good, goodness
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
765 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 善 【ゼン】 good, goodness, right, virtue
  • 善意 【ゼンイ】 virtuous mind, good intentions, good will, positive mindset, bona fides, good faith
  • 親善 【シンゼン】 friendship, goodwill, friendly relations, amity
  • 独善 【ドクゼン】 self-righteousness, self-justified

Kun reading compounds

  • 良い 【よい】 good, excellent, fine, nice, pleasant, agreeable, sufficient, enough, ready, prepared, profitable (deal, business offer, etc.), beneficial, OK, all right, fine, no problem, easy to ...
  • 善い行い 【よいおこない】 good deed
  • 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
  • いい人 【いいひと】 good-natured person, good person, (one's) lover, boyfriend, girlfriend
  • 良く 【よく】 nicely, properly, well, skillfully, skilfully, frequently, often, I'm glad that you ..., thank you for ..., (you have) quite the nerve to, I don't know how you can ...
  • 善くも 【よくも】 how dare ..., how could ..., surprisingly, unexpectedly

Readings

Japanese names:
たる、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shan4
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • bondad
  • virtud

Portuguese

  • bom
  • virtuoso
  • bondade

French

  • bien
  • bonté
  • vertu
831 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
929 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
735 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
643 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
606 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
717 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
415 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1799 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1139 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1191 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
676 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
295 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2921 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1501 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2030 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1044 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3904 Morohashi
2325 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
859 New Nelson (John Haig)
1035 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1112 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
949 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
977 2001 Kanji
2o10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-10 SKIP code
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-9-3 SKIP code
8060.5 Four corner code
8060.1 Four corner code
1-33-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5584 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
neighboring
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1083 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 隣国 【リンゴク】 neighbouring country, neighboring country, adjacent country
  • 隣家 【リンカ】 neighbouring house, neighboring house
  • 善隣 【ゼンリン】 good neighbour, good neighbor
  • 四隣 【シリン】 whole neighborhood, whole neighbourhood, surrounding countries

Kun reading compounds

  • 隣る 【となる】 to neighbor (neighbour), to be adjacent to, to be next to, to border
  • 隣 【となり】 next (to), adjoining, adjacent, house next door, neighbouring house, next-door neighbour, next-door neighbor
  • 隣り合う 【となりあう】 to adjoin each other, to sit side by side
  • 先隣 【さきとなり】 next door but one, (a house) two doors away
  • 一軒置いて隣 【いっけんおいてとなり】 next door but one

Readings

Japanese names:
ちか
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lin2
Korean:
rin

Spanish

  • colindante
  • vecino
  • colindar

Portuguese

  • vizinho

French

  • voisin
1915 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1002 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5023 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1040 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1882 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2443 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
809 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
828 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
980 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
752 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
961 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
538 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
700 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1320 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41847 Morohashi
781 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6484 New Nelson (John Haig)
1311 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1408 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1862 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3655 2001 Kanji
2d13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-13 SKIP code
1-2-13 SKIP code
7925.9 Four corner code
1-46-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96a3 Unicode hex code