Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
mourning, abhor, detestable, death anniversary
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1882 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 忌 【キ】 mourning, mourning period, anniversary of one's death
  • 忌避 【キヒ】 evasion, avoidance, shirking, recusation (of a judge), taking exception (to a judge), challenge
  • 回忌 【カイキ】 death anniversary, anniversary of a person's death
  • 七回忌 【シチカイキ】 sixth anniversary of a death

Kun reading compounds

  • 忌む 【いむ】 to avoid, to refrain from, to shun, to detest
  • 忌むべき 【いむべき】 abominable, detestable
  • 忌み 【いみ】 mourning, abstinence, taboo, religious purification, pure, holy
  • 忌み明け 【いみあけ】 end of mourning
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 物忌み 【ものいみ】 purification through fasting and abstinence, confinement to one's house on inauspicious days to avoid misfortune (Onmyōdō practice)
  • 忌まわしい 【いまわしい】 abhorrent, abominable, detestable, disgusting, horrid, repugnant, ominous, inauspicious, unlucky

Readings

Japanese names:
いまわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji4
Korean:
gi

Spanish

  • aborrecer
  • detestar
  • luto

Portuguese

  • luto
  • odiar
  • detestável
  • aniversário de morte

French

  • deuil
  • détester
  • répugnant
  • anniversaire du décès
1122 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1819 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1463 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1522 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1287 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
462 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1797 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1935 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1697 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
769 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2735 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1889 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
606 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10310 Morohashi
2207 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1786 New Nelson (John Haig)
599 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
644 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1121 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3558 2001 Kanji
4k3.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
1733.1 Four corner code
1-20-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5fcc Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
thumb, inch
Parts:
measurement, tenth of a shaku, a little, small
On:
スン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1669 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 寸 【スン】 sun (approx. 3 cm), length, measurement, shortness, tininess
  • 寸前 【スンゼン】 just before, on the verge of, on the brink of, just in front of, just ahead of
  • 原寸 【ゲンスン】 actual size, full size
  • 外寸 【ガイスン】 external dimensions, outer size

Readings

Japanese names:
す、 みき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cun4
Korean:
chon

Spanish

  • longitud
  • medida
  • un poco
  • sólo
  • antigua unidad de medida

Portuguese

  • medição
  • medida valendo pés/ 10

French

  • dimension
  • un peu
  • sun = 3,03 cm (1/10 de shaku)
920 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
909 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1523 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1348 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1045 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1220 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
34 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1894 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2070 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
367 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
499 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3652 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1864 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2541 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
45 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7411 Morohashi
2935 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1372 New Nelson (John Haig)
45 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
45 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
828 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1448 2001 Kanji
0a3.17 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-1 SKIP code
4-3-3 SKIP code
4030.0 Four corner code
1-32-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5bf8 Unicode hex code