Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
grain
Parts:
private, I, me
Kun:
わたくしわたし
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N4
242 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 私 【シ】 private affairs, personal matter
  • 私案 【シアン】 private plan, one's own plan
  • 無私 【ムシ】 unselfish, selfless, disinterested
  • 滅私 【メッシ】 selflessness, being unselfish

Kun reading compounds

  • 私 【わたくし】 I, me, personal (affairs, etc.), private, selfishness, partiality, secrecy, confidentiality
  • 私立 【しりつ】 private (establishment)
  • 不肖私 【ふしょうわたくし】 I, me
  • 私 【わたし】 I, me
  • 私たち 【わたしたち】 we, us

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si1
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • yo
  • privado
  • secreto

Portuguese

  • particular
  • Eu
  • me

French

  • privé
  • je
  • moi
797 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
887 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
876 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
221 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3265 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
367 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
232 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
637 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
125 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
125 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
72 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1428 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1432 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
758 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1030 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
911 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24913 Morohashi
1115 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4124 New Nelson (John Haig)
902 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
968 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
17 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
852 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2271 2001 Kanji
5d2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
2293.0 Four corner code
1-27-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
79c1 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 娼婦 【ショウフ】 prostitute, harlot
  • 娼家 【ショウカ】 brothel
  • 街娼 【ガイショウ】 prostitute, whore, streetwalker
  • 廃娼 【ハイショウ】 abolition of licensed prostitution

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang1
Korean:
chang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1235 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6376 Morohashi
1241 New Nelson (John Haig)
2198 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2311 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3e8.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
4646.0 Four corner code
1-30-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5a3c Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 窟院 【クツイン】 cave temple
  • 巣窟 【ソウクツ】 den, haunt, hangout, nest, lair
  • 宝窟 【ホウクツ】 treasure mine

Kun reading compounds

  • 岩屋 【いわや】 cavern, grotto

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ku1
Korean:
gul

Spanish

Portuguese

French

  • grotte
  • caverne
3331 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1943 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2923 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2032 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1335 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25552 Morohashi
2328 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4206 New Nelson (John Haig)
2615 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1420 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3m10.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-5-8 SKIP code
3027.2 Four corner code
1-23-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a9f Unicode hex code