Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
Variants:
exchange, spare, substitute, per-
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
979 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 移替 【イタイ】 changing (person in charge, etc.), shifting
  • 衰替 【スイタイ】 weakening, declining

Kun reading compounds

  • 替える 【かえる】 to replace, to convert, to change, to exchange, to interchange, to renew, to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
  • 替わる 【かわる】 to succeed, to relieve, to replace, to take the place of, to substitute for, to take over for, to represent, to hand over (telephone), to be exchanged, to change (places with), to switch

Readings

Japanese names:
かえ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ti4
Korean:
che

Spanish

  • cambio
  • sustitución
  • intercambio
  • cambiar
  • sustituir
  • intercambiar
  • convertir

Portuguese

  • troca
  • reserva
  • substituto
  • por-

French

  • substituer
  • remplacer
  • échanger
1548 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
849 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2140 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1398 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
611 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
744 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
757 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
375 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1001 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3457 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1780 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2424 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
850 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14300 Morohashi
2783 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2486 New Nelson (John Haig)
842 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
905 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1547 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1478 2001 Kanji
4c8.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
5560.3 Four corner code
1-34-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66ff Unicode hex code

7 strokes (also 8)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
wick
On:
シン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2202 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 芯 【シン】 wick, marrow, staple (for stapler), (pencil) lead, stuffing, pith, core, heart, centre, center, pistil (of a flower), stamen
  • 芯が強い 【シンガツヨイ】 mentally strong, strong-willed
  • 排水芯 【ハイスイシン】 toilet drain outlet
  • 灯心 【トウシン】 (lamp) wick

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xin1, xin4
Korean:
sim

Spanish

  • interior
  • entrañas (cuerpo
  • cosa)

Portuguese

French

3905 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2084 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2744 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1898 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30732X Morohashi
2423 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4976 New Nelson (John Haig)
2368 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
647 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
2-4-4 SKIP code
4433.0 Four corner code
1-31-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82af Unicode hex code