Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
squeeze
Kun:
しぼ.る
On:
サク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2046 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 搾取 【サクシュ】 exploitation, bleeding dry, squeezing dry, milking (e.g. a cow's teat), extracting (a liquid) through squeezing
  • 搾乳 【サクニュウ】 milking (a cow, goat, etc.), breast pumping, milk expression
  • 圧搾 【アッサク】 pressure, compression, pressing

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zha4
Korean:
chag

Spanish

  • apretón
  • estrujón
  • presión
  • apretar
  • estrujar
  • comprimir

Portuguese

  • espremer

French

  • presser
1301 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2015 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1975 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1777 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1377 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1497 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1596 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1484 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
920 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
798 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
466 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
594 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1336 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12553 Morohashi
649 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2251 New Nelson (John Haig)
1324 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1422 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1629 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1354 2001 Kanji
3c10.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
5301.1 Four corner code
1-26-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
643e Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
vegetable, side dish, greens
Kun:
On:
サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1327 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 菜 【サイ】 side dish
  • 菜園 【サイエン】 vegetable garden
  • 山菜 【サンサイ】 edible wild plants
  • 前菜 【ゼンサイ】 hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, appetiser, starter

Kun reading compounds

  • 菜 【な】 greens, vegetables, rape (Brassica napus), rapeseed
  • 菜種 【なたね】 rapeseed, coleseed
  • 若菜 【わかな】 young greens, young herbs
  • うまい菜 【うまいな】 Swiss chard

Readings

Japanese names:
よう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cai4
Korean:
chae

Spanish

  • verduras
  • entremeses
  • vegetales

Portuguese

  • legume
  • salada
  • verduras

French

  • légume
  • accompagnement (du riz)
401 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
509 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
483 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1108 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3982 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
870 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
246 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1447 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
931 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
958 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
774 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
660 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2880 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1486 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2004 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
742 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31184P Morohashi
2305 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5097 New Nelson (John Haig)
734 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
793 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
566 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k8.25 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-26-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83dc Unicode hex code