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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
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
- Korean:
- sa
Spanish
- muerte
- morir
Portuguese
- morte
- dados
French
- mort
- mourir
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 |
生
life, genuine, birth
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生育 【セイイク】 birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding
- 回生 【カイセイ】 resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student
- 公衆衛生 【コウシュウエイセイ】 public health, public hygiene, sanitation
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生家 【セイカ】 house where one was born, one's parents' house
- 殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal
- 死生 【シセイ】 life and death
Kun reading compounds
- 生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
- 生きる糧 【いきるかて】 source of vitality, life sustenance
- 生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
- 生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
- 生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
- 生う 【おう】 to grow (of plants), to spring up
- 生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
- 生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to let grow (e.g. weeds)
- 生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
- 生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up, uncoated metal
- 死に生き 【しにいき】 death and life, death or life, death
- 生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), raw, bareback, live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, blank (e.g. disk), unused, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory, cash, tipsiness
- 生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
- お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
- 現ナマ 【げんナマ】 cold cash, hard cash
- 生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
- 生す 【なす】 to have a child
- 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
- Korean:
- saeng
Spanish
- vida
- nacimiento
- vivir
- existir
- nacer
- dar a luz
- puro
- crudo
Portuguese
- vida
- genuína
- nascimento
French
- vie
- naissance
- authentique
- cru
34 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
44 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
42 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
29 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
2991 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
67 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
71 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
214 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.4 | Japanese for Busy People |
44 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
44 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
49 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1327 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4309 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2179 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2933 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1569 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
21670 | Morohashi |
3497 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3715 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1555 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1675 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
9 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
43 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2472 | 2001 Kanji |
0a5.29 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-5-2 | SKIP code |
2510.0 | Four corner code |
1-32-24 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
751f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N4
101 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 不 【フ】 un-, non-, negative prefix
- 不安 【フアン】 anxiety, uneasiness, worry, apprehension, fear, insecurity, suspense
- 意味不 【イミフ】 of uncertain meaning, ambiguous, cryptic, nonsensical, incomprehensible, perplexing
- 社不 【シャフ】 person unfit for society, misfit
- 無 【ブ】 un-, non-, bad ..., poor ...
- 不気味 【ブキミ】 weird, eerie, ominous, creepy, uncanny, unearthly
Readings
- Korean:
- bu, bul
Spanish
- prefijo negativo: in-
- des-
Portuguese
- Prefixo negativo
- negativa
- não
- feia
- ruim
- deselegante
French
- négation
- non
- mauvais
- laid
- maladroit
500 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
600 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
572 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
134 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
17 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
130 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
104 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
94 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
3.18 | Japanese for Busy People |
94 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
94 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
422 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
10 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4242 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2141 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2890 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1225 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
19 | Morohashi |
3434 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
13 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1217 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1302 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
103 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
444 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
3154 | 2001 Kanji |
0a4.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-4-1 | SKIP code |
3-3-1 | SKIP code |
3-2-2 | SKIP code |
1090.0 | Four corner code |
1-41-52 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
4e0d | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
205 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 知 【チ】 wisdom, jnana (higher knowledge)
- 知恵 【チエ】 wisdom, wit, sagacity, sense, intelligence, prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)
- 認知 【ニンチ】 acknowledgement, acknowledgment, recognition, cognition
- 熟知 【ジュクチ】 being familiar with, having a thorough knowledge of, being well-informed about
Kun reading compounds
- 知る 【しる】 to know, to be aware (of), to be conscious (of), to learn (of), to find out, to discover, to sense, to feel, to notice, to realize, to understand, to comprehend, to grasp, to appreciate, to remember, to be familiar with, to be acquainted with, to experience, to go through, to know (e.g. hardship), to get acquainted with (a person), to get to know, to have to do with, to be concerned with, to be one's concern, to be one's responsibility
- 知る限り 【しるかぎり】 as far as I know
- 吾唯足知 【われただたるをしる】 I am content with what I am (have), rich is the person who is content with what he is
- 知らせる 【しらせる】 to notify, to advise, to inform
Readings
- Japanese names:
- さと、 さとる、 しり、 しれ、 とも、 のり
- Korean:
- ji
Spanish
- conocer
- saber
- entender
Portuguese
- saber
- sabedoria
French
- savoir
- sagesse
112 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
186 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
169 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
207 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3169 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
196 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
229 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
636 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.18 | Japanese for Busy People |
214 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
214 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
143 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1394 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
1446 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
768 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1041 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1231 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
23935 | Morohashi |
1127 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3978 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1223 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1308 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
73 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
160 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2377 | 2001 Kanji |
3d5.14 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-5-3 | SKIP code |
8640.0 | Four corner code |
1-35-46 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
77e5 | Unicode hex code |