Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
death, decay 歹 (歺)
Parts:
death, die
Kun:
し.ぬし.に-
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 死 【シ】 death, (an) out, death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
  • 死因 【シイン】 cause of death
  • 安楽死 【アンラクシ】 euthanasia
  • 病死 【ビョウシ】 death from disease, death from illness

Kun reading compounds

  • 死ぬ 【しぬ】 to die, to pass away, to lose spirit, to lose vigor, to look dead, to cease, to stop
  • 死ぬ気で 【しぬきで】 all out, like hell, like crazy, desperately, expecting to die

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si3
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • muerte
  • morir

Portuguese

  • morte
  • dados

French

  • mort
  • mourir
223 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
302 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
286 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
254 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2439 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
207 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
205 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.5 Japanese for Busy People
85 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
85 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
258 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1133 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4334 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2194 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2952 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
823 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16365 Morohashi
3521 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2968 New Nelson (John Haig)
815 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
878 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
238 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
267 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3256 2001 Kanji
0a6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-1 SKIP code
1021.1 Four corner code
1021.2 Four corner code
1-27-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b7b Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广
bed, counter for beds, floor, padding, tatami
Kun:
とこゆか
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1175 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 床 【ショウ】 counter for beds
  • 床几 【ショウギ】 camp stool, folding stool
  • 臨床 【リンショウ】 clinical (e.g. pathology, physiology)
  • 温床 【オンショウ】 hotbed, breeding ground

Kun reading compounds

  • 床 【とこ】 bed, bedding, sickbed, alcove, riverbed, seedbed, straw "core" of a tatami mat, floor
  • 床の間 【とこのま】 tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)
  • 鋏 【やっとこ】 pincers, nippers, pliers
  • 金床 【かなとこ】 anvil
  • 床 【ゆか】 floor, stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player), dining platform built across a river
  • 床下 【ゆかした】 under the floor
  • 河床 【かしょう】 riverbed, raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer
  • 納涼床 【のうりょうゆか】 raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the summer cool

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuang2
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • suelo
  • cama
  • alcoba
  • peluquería

Portuguese

  • cama
  • andar
  • estofamento
  • tatami

French

  • plancher
  • lit
  • rembourrage
  • tatami
  • compteur de lits
1389 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1240 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1503 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
959 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
507 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
508 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
826 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
845 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
543 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
584 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3805 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1947 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2641 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
599 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9242 Morohashi
3067 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1608 New Nelson (John Haig)
592 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
636 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1135 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
564 2001 Kanji
3q4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-4 SKIP code
0029.4 Four corner code
1-30-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e8a Unicode hex code