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潜

15 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
二 亠 人 大 汁 日
Variants:
潛 濳
submerge, conceal, hide, lower (voice), hush
Kun:
ひそ.む、 もぐ.る、 かく.れる、 くぐ.る、 ひそ.める
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1329 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 潜水 【センスイ】 diving, submerging, going underwater
  • 潜在 【センザイ】 potentiality, dormancy, latency
  • 原潜 【ゲンセン】 nuclear submarine
  • 対潜 【タイセン】 antisubmarine

Kun reading compounds

  • 潜む 【ひそむ】 to lurk, to be hidden, to be concealed, to lie dormant, to be latent
  • 潜る 【もぐる】 to dive (into or under water), to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under, to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground
  • 潜る 【くぐる】 to go under, to pass under, to go through, to pass through, to dive (into or under the water), to evade, to get around, to slip past, to survive, to surmount
  • 潜める 【ひそめる】 to hide, to conceal, to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard, to become quiet and inconspicuous

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian2
Korean:
jam

Spanish

  • esconderse
  • ocultarse
  • silenciar

Portuguese

  • submergir
  • esconder
  • ocultar
  • abaixar (voz)
  • calar

French

  • s'immerger
  • se cacher
  • se dissimuler
  • s'embusquer
  • voix basse
  • chut!
1497 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1302 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2703 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1458 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1501 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2272 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
937 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
967 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1393 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1251 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
922 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
521 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
680 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
852 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18241 Morohashi
746 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3337 New Nelson (John Haig)
844 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
907 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1779 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
378 2001 Kanji
3a12.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
3516.3 Four corner code
1-32-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f5c Unicode hex code

水

4 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
水
water
Kun:
みず、 みず-
On:
スイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
223 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 水 【スイ】 Wednesday, shaved ice (served with flavored syrup), water (fifth of the five elements)
  • 水位 【スイイ】 water level
  • 用水 【ヨウスイ】 irrigation water, water for fire, city water, cistern water
  • 浄水 【ジョウスイ】 clean water, purified water

Kun reading compounds

  • 水 【みず】 water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water), fluid (esp. in an animal tissue), liquid, flood, floodwaters, water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout, break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout
  • 水揚げ 【みずあげ】 landing, unloading (e.g. a ship), catch (of fish), takings, sales (of a shop), defloration (e.g. of a geisha), preservation (of cut flowers, in ikebana)
  • 飲み水 【のみみず】 drinking water, potable water
  • 呼び水 【よびみず】 pump-priming, rousing, stimulation

Readings

Japanese names:
うず、 ずみ、 つ、 ど、 み、 みさ、 みつ、 みな、 みん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shui3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • agua

Portuguese

  • água

French

  • eau
14 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
16 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
40 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
144 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2482 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
16 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
68 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
54 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
21 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
21 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
19 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1151 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
10 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
132 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17083 Morohashi
10 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3030 New Nelson (John Haig)
130 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
137 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
166 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
31 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1142 2001 Kanji
3a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-3 SKIP code
4-4-3 SKIP code
1223.0 Four corner code
1-31-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c34 Unicode hex code

服

8 strokes
Radical:
moon, month 月
Parts:
卩 又 月
clothing, admit, obey, discharge
On:
フク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
873 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 服 【フク】 clothes (esp. Western clothes), counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
  • 服役 【フクエキ】 penal servitude, serving time in prison, military service, forced labor, compulsory service
  • 私服 【シフク】 ordinary clothes (i.e. non-uniform), plain clothes, civilian clothes, casual wear, mufti, plainclothes police officer
  • 呉服 【ゴフク】 cloth (for Japanese clothes), kimono fabrics, textile, drapery, dry goods, piece goods, silk fabrics

Readings

Japanese names:
はっ、 はつ、 はら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu2, fu4
Korean:
bog

Spanish

  • ropa
  • admitir
  • obedecer

Portuguese

  • vestuário
  • permitir
  • obedecer
  • descarregar

French

  • habillement
  • admettre
  • obéir
  • libérer (renvoi)
  • avaler (médicament)
505 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
408 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
385 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
534 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3741 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
306 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
194 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
618 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.4 Japanese for Busy People
683 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
696 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
317 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1004 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1090 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
591 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
782 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1411 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14345P Morohashi
878 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4775 New Nelson (John Haig)
1399 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1501 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
476 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
312 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3967 2001 Kanji
4b4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
7724.7 Four corner code
1-41-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
670d Unicode hex code

蝶

15 strokes
Radical:
insect 虫
Parts:
木 世 虫
butterfly
On:
チョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2011 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 蝶 【チョウ】 butterfly
  • 蝶々 【チョウチョウ】 butterfly
  • 太陽蝶 【タイヨウチョウ】 sunset morpho (butterfly, Morpho hecuba)
  • 猪鹿蝶 【イノシカチョウ】 the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring meld), inoshikacho (type of hanafuda gambling game)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
die2
Korean:
jeob

Spanish

  • mariposa

Portuguese

French

  • papillon
4171 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1970 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2495 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2236 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1772 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
946 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1278 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
527 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
33333 Morohashi
1401 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5363 New Nelson (John Haig)
521 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
560 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
1-6-8 SKIP code
5419.4 Four corner code
1-36-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8776 Unicode hex code

夢

13 strokes
Radical:
evening, sunset 夕
Parts:
冖 夕 艾 買
Variants:
梦 夣
dream, vision, illusion
Kun:
ゆめ、 ゆめ.みる、 くら.い
On:
ム、 ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
943 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 夢中 【ムチュウ】 absorbed in, immersed in, crazy about, obsessed with, devoted to, forgetting oneself, daze, trance, ecstasy, delirium, within a dream, while dreaming
  • 夢想 【ムソウ】 dream, vision, reverie
  • 同床異夢 【ドウショウイム】 cohabiting but living in different worlds
  • 怪夢 【カイム】 strange dream

Kun reading compounds

  • 夢 【ゆめ】 dream
  • 夢にも 【ゆめにも】 (not) in the slightest, (not) at all
  • 初夢 【はつゆめ】 first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck), dream on the night of setsubun
  • 逆夢 【さかゆめ】 a dream which is contradicted by reality
  • 夢見る 【ゆめみる】 to dream (of)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
meng4
Korean:
mong

Spanish

  • sueño
  • visión
  • ilusión

Portuguese

  • sonho
  • visão
  • ilusão

French

  • rêve
  • vision
  • illusion
816 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1844 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
969 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4028 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1425 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
444 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1990 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
811 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
830 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
800 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
407 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2939 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1510 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2046 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
311 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5801P Morohashi
2336 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1131 New Nelson (John Haig)
305 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
327 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
783 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1960 2001 Kanji
3k10.14 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-8-5 SKIP code
4420.7 Four corner code
1-44-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5922 Unicode hex code

見

7 strokes
Radical:
see 見
Parts:
儿 目 見
see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible
Kun:
み.る、 み.える、 み.せる
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
22 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 見 【ケン】 view (of life, etc.), outlook
  • 見解 【ケンカイ】 opinion, point of view
  • 後見 【コウケン】 guardianship, guardian, (theatrical) assistant, prompter
  • 政見 【セイケン】 political views

Kun reading compounds

  • 見る 【みる】 to see, to look, to watch, to view, to observe, to examine, to look over, to assess, to check, to judge, to look after, to attend to, to take care of, to keep an eye on, to experience, to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.), to try ..., to have a go at ..., to give ... a try, to see (that) ..., to find (that) ...
  • 見る見る 【みるみる】 very fast, in a twinkle, before one's eyes
  • 見える 【みえる】 to be seen, to be visible, to be in sight, to look, to seem, to appear, to come
  • 見える化 【みえるか】 visualization, rendering visible (e.g. a problem), digitization
  • 見せる 【みせる】 to show, to display, to make (something or someone) look ..., to present an appearance of ..., to make (something) worth watching, to be entertaining, to make a show of (doing), to do in a conspicuous manner, to do in view of others, to resolve to do, to do at any cost, to show others that one will ...

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian4, xian4
Korean:
gyeon, hyeon

Spanish

  • vista
  • ver
  • esperanza
  • idea
  • opinión
  • observar
  • ser visto
  • estar a la vista
  • poder verse
  • mostrar

Portuguese

  • ver
  • esperanças
  • oportunidades
  • idéia
  • opinião
  • olhar
  • visíveis

French

  • regarder
  • voir
  • visible
  • espoirs
  • chances
  • idée
  • opinion
67 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
18 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
48 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4284 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
23 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
84 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
518 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
63 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
63 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
139 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1643 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3151 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1615 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2201 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
57 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
34796 Morohashi
2544 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5522 New Nelson (John Haig)
57 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
61 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
20 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
62 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3957 2001 Kanji
5c2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-2 SKIP code
6021.0 Four corner code
1-24-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
898b Unicode hex code