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17 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
get wet, damp, make love
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2260 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 濡れる 【ぬれる】 to get wet
  • 濡らす 【ぬらす】 to wet, to moisten, to dampen, to soak, to dip
  • 濡れる 【ぬれる】 to get wet
  • 濡らす 【ぬらす】 to wet, to moisten, to dampen, to soak, to dip

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ru2
Korean:
yu

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2723 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
976 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
709 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
18504 Morohashi
3365 New Nelson (John Haig)
2329 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2419 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3a14.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-14 SKIP code
3112.7 Four corner code
1-39-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6fe1 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
hand
Kun:
て--てた-
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
60 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 手術 【シュジュツ】 surgery, operation, procedure, skill with one's hands, sleight of hand
  • 手記 【シュキ】 note, memorandum, memo, memoirs, personal account
  • 二塁手 【ニルイシュ】 second baseman
  • 名手 【メイシュ】 master, expert, brilliant move (in go, shogi, etc.), excellent move
  • 交際上手 【コウサイジョウズ】 good at socializing, sociability, being a good mixer
  • 処世上手 【ショセイジョウズ】 knowing how to get on in the world, knowing the secret of success in life

Kun reading compounds

  • 手 【て】 hand, arm, forepaw, foreleg, handle, hand, worker, help, trouble, care, effort, means, way, trick, move, technique, workmanship, hand, handwriting, kind, type, sort, one's hands, one's possession, ability to cope, hand (of cards), direction, move (in go, shogi, etc.)
  • 手足 【てあし】 hands and feet, limbs, person at one's beck and call, person at hand, reliable worker
  • 逆手 【ぎゃくて】 underhand grip, backhand grip (e.g. in tennis), unexpected twist, turning the tables (on an opponent)
  • 担い手 【にないて】 bearer, carrier, person bearing responsibility, person in charge, supporter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • mano

Portuguese

  • mão

French

  • main
28 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
35 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
32 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
42 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1827 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
37 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
54 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
118 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.19 Japanese for Busy People
57 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
57 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
170 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
847 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4267 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2155 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2907 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
644 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11768 Morohashi
3456 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2060 New Nelson (John Haig)
637 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
687 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
57 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
30 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2247 2001 Kanji
3c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
2-1-3 SKIP code
2050.0 Four corner code
1-28-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
624b Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
西
millet
Kun:
あわもみ
On:
ゾクショクソク
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2146 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 粟 【ゾク】 millet, grain, stipend in rice, 10,000th of a shaku
  • 粟粒 【アワツブ】 millet grain, something extremely tiny
  • 稲粟 【トウゾク】 rice and millet
  • 滄海の一粟 【ソウカイノイチゾク】 drop in the bucket, drop in the ocean, one grain of millet in a vast ocean

Kun reading compounds

  • 粟 【あわ】 foxtail millet (Setaria italica), Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
  • 粟おこし 【あわおこし】 millet brittle
  • 糯粟 【もちあわ】 glutinous millet (for making mochi and certain types of alcohol)
  • 濡れ手で粟 【ぬれてであわ】 easy profit

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 さっ、 そう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
su4
Korean:
sog

Spanish

  • mijo

Portuguese

French

4277 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1763 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3326 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2343 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26922 Morohashi
4403 New Nelson (John Haig)
2654 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2696 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6b6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-6 SKIP code
1090.4 Four corner code
1-16-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c9f Unicode hex code