Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
bamboo grass, (kokuji)
Kun:
ささ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1743 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 笹 【ささ】 bamboo grass, generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
  • 笹原 【ささはら】 field of bamboo grass

Readings

Japanese names:
さ、 さき、 しの、 じね
Korean:
se

Spanish

  • hierba de bambú

Portuguese

French

  • pousse de bambou
3384 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1772 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2189 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3301 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1708 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2321 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
949 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25968 Morohashi
2663 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4271 New Nelson (John Haig)
940 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1010 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-5 SKIP code
2-6-4 SKIP code
8871.7 Four corner code
1-26-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7b39 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Kun:
かわ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
  • 山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
  • 四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kun reading compounds

  • 川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
  • 川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
  • 堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
  • 山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • arroyo
  • río

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • rio

French

  • rivière
  • fleuve
  • radical rivière (no. 47)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
59 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
48 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
41 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
49 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
20 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
33 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
33 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
101 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
6 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8673 Morohashi
6 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1526 New Nelson (John Haig)
127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
21 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
0a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
2200.0 Four corner code
1-32-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ddd Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
Variants:

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Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao2
Korean:
yo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2888 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2007 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
5272 Morohashi
2307 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1041 New Nelson (John Haig)
3b9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
4021.1 Four corner code
1-84-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
582f Unicode hex code