Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
self
Parts:
oneself
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
19 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 自 【ジ】 self-, from (a time or place)
  • 自営 【ジエイ】 running one's own business, doing business on one's own, self-employment
  • 出自 【シュツジ】 origin, birthplace, descent, lineage, ancestry, stock
  • 海自 【カイジ】 Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • 自然界 【シゼンカイ】 nature, the natural world, realm of nature
  • 自然 【シゼン】 nature, natural, spontaneous, automatic, naturally, spontaneously, automatically
  • 己がじし 【オノガジシ】 each (and every one), individually

Kun reading compounds

  • 自ら 【みずから】 oneself, oneself, for oneself, personally, in person
  • 自ら進んで 【みずからすすんで】 by choice, of one's own free will, on one's own initiative, off one's own bat
  • 自ずから 【おのずから】 naturally, in due course, by itself, of its own accord
  • 自ずから明らか 【おのずからあきらか】 self-evident
  • 自ずと 【おのずと】 naturally, in due course, by itself, of its own accord

Readings

Japanese names:
より
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi4
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • uno mismo
  • por sí mismo
  • auto-

Portuguese

  • a si próprio

French

  • soi-même
229 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
150 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
134 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
53 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3841 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
60 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
242 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
340 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.19 Japanese for Busy People
62 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
62 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
63 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1587 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4338 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2954 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
36 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30095 Morohashi
3525 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4900 New Nelson (John Haig)
36 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
36 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
14 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
126 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
879 2001 Kanji
5c1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-2 SKIP code
2600.0 Four corner code
1-28-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81ea Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
other, another, the others
Kun:
ほか
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
543 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 他 【タ】 other (esp. people and abstract matters)
  • 他国 【タコク】 foreign country, other country, another province, strange land, alien land
  • 自他 【ジタ】 oneself and others, subject and object, transitivity, transitive and intransitive verbs, first person and third person, self-salvation and salvation by faith
  • 排他 【ハイタ】 exclusion

Kun reading compounds

  • 他 【ほか】 another place, some other place, somewhere else, outside, another (person or thing), other, different, something else, someone else, the rest, et al., beyond (one's expectations, imagination, etc.), outside, except, but, other than, apart from, besides, in addition to, as well as, on top of
  • 他に 【ほかに】 else, in addition, besides
  • 思いのほか 【おもいのほか】 unexpectedly, surprisingly
  • 殊の外 【ことのほか】 exceedingly, extremely, exceptionally, unusually, unexpectedly

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ta1
Korean:
ta

Spanish

  • otro
  • los demás

Portuguese

  • outro
  • outrem
  • os outros

French

  • autre
  • un autre
  • les autres
459 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
354 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
334 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
355 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
361 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
520 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
301 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
129 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
120 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
120 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
415 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
60 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
39 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
22 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
23 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
970 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
370 Morohashi
35 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
122 New Nelson (John Haig)
961 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1034 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
172 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
255 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2156 2001 Kanji
2a3.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-3 SKIP code
2421.2 Four corner code
1-34-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4ed6 Unicode hex code