Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
shallow, superficial, frivolous, wretched, shameful
Kun:
あさ.い
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1253 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 浅見 【センケン】 shallow view, superficial idea
  • 浅海 【センカイ】 shallow sea
  • 深浅 【シンセン】 depth, shade (of color, colour)

Kun reading compounds

  • 浅い 【あさい】 shallow, superficial, slight (wound), light (sleep), pale (colour), inadequate (knowledge), short (time), early, young
  • 浅煎り 【あさいり】 light roast (coffee)

Readings

Japanese names:
あざ、 さ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian3, jian1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • poco profundo
  • superficial

Portuguese

  • raso
  • frívolo
  • superficial
  • desprezível
  • obsceno

French

  • peu profond
  • superficiel
  • frivole
  • misérable
  • honteux
655 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
554 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
525 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
838 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2549 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
722 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
683 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
827 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
649 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
660 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
122 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1190 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
464 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
289 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
349 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
375 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17452 Morohashi
389 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3129 New Nelson (John Haig)
369 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
395 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
529 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
359 2001 Kanji
3a6.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
3315.0 Four corner code
1-32-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d45 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かやちがや
On:
ボウミョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1895 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 茅屋 【ボウオク】 thatched cottage, hovel, my humble cottage
  • 茅茨 【ボウシ】 thatched roof, cogon grass and thorny shrubs (materials for thatching roofs)

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 茅場 【かやば】 hayfield, field of miscanthus
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 茅 【ちがや】 cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Readings

Japanese names:
ち、 じ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mao2
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • gramíneas (junco
  • heno
  • etc.)

Portuguese

French

3924 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
690 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2214 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2779 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1425 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1922 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30836X Morohashi
5005 New Nelson (John Haig)
2385 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2468 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4422.2 Four corner code
1-19-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8305 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
life
Parts:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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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
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sheng1
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