Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
ear
Parts:
ear
Kun:
みみ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
1328 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 耳鼻科 【ジビカ】 otolaryngology, ear, nose, and throat department
  • 耳鼻咽喉科 【ジビインコウカ】 otorhinolaryngology, otolaryngology, ear, nose and throat department
  • 中耳 【チュウジ】 middle ear, tympanum
  • 外耳 【ガイジ】 external ear, concha

Kun reading compounds

  • 耳 【みみ】 ear, hearing, ear (for music, etc.), edge, crust, heel (of bread or cheese), selvedge (of woven fabric), selvage, ear (of a pot, jug, etc.), handle
  • 耳障り 【みみざわり】 hard (on the ears), offensive (to the ear), rasping, rough, harsh, grating, jarring, cacophonous
  • 大耳 【おおみみ】 big ears, listening without paying attention
  • 遠耳 【とおみみ】 sharp hearing

Readings

Japanese names:
がみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
er3
Korean:
i

Spanish

  • oreja
  • oído

Portuguese

  • ouvido

French

  • oreille
26 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
32 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
29 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1323 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3697 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
107 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
79 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
331 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
56 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
56 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
169 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1582 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4329 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2190 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2948 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
826 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28999 Morohashi
3516 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4715 New Nelson (John Haig)
818 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
881 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
61 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3255 2001 Kanji
6e0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-1 SKIP code
1012.0 Four corner code
1040.0 Four corner code
1-28-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8033 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 塞源 【ソクゲン】 blockage of a source
  • 塞栓 【ソクセン】 embolus, abnormal substance (i.e. air) circulating in the blood
  • 梗塞 【コウソク】 stoppage, blocking, infarction, infarct
  • 閉塞 【ヘイソク】 blockage, blockade, blocking up, stoppage, obstruction, occlusion
  • 塞翁が馬 【サイオウガウマ】 the future is unpredictable, inscrutable are the ways of heaven, the irony of fate
  • 塞外 【サイガイ】 outside a fort, outside the Great Wall of China
  • 防塞 【ボウサイ】 fort, defensive position
  • 城塞 【ジョウサイ】 fortress, stronghold, citadel

Kun reading compounds

  • 塞ぐ 【ふさぐ】 to stop up, to close up, to block (up), to plug up, to shut up, to cover (ears, eyes, etc.), to close (eyes, mouth), to stand in the way, to obstruct, to occupy, to fill up, to take up, to perform one's role, to do one's duty, to feel depressed, to be in low spirits, to mope

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sai1, sai4, se4
Korean:
sae, saeg

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1324 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
465 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2924 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2033 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
5349 Morohashi
2330 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1069 New Nelson (John Haig)
2214 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1646 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
772 2001 Kanji
3m10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
3010.4 Four corner code
1-26-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
585e Unicode hex code