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色

6 strokes
Radical:
colour, prettiness 色
Parts:
勹 巴 色
color
Kun:
いろ
On:
ショク、 シキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
621 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 色 【ショク】 counter for colours
  • 紫色 【ムラサキイロ】 purple, violet
  • 彩色 【サイシキ】 colouring, coloring, colouration, coloration, painting
  • 色 【シキ】 rupa (form), visible objects (i.e. color and form)
  • 色彩 【シキサイ】 colour, color, hue, tints
  • 彩色 【サイシキ】 colouring, coloring, colouration, coloration, painting
  • 極彩色 【ゴクサイシキ】 richly colored, richly coloured

Kun reading compounds

  • 色 【いろ】 colour, color, hue, tint, tinge, shade, complexion, skin colour, skin color, look (on one's face), expression, appearance, air, feeling, personality, character, tone (of one's voice, etc.), tune, sound, ring, love, lust, sensuality, love affair, lover, paramour, beauty, sexiness, physical appeal, kind, type, variety
  • 色合い 【いろあい】 colouring, coloring, shade (of colour), hue, tone, tinge, tint, flavour, nuance, feel, sense, look
  • 紫色 【むらさきいろ】 purple, violet
  • 橙色 【だいだいいろ】 orange (color, colour)

Readings

Japanese names:
しか、 しこ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
se4, shai3
Korean:
saeg

Spanish

  • color
  • aspecto

Portuguese

  • cor

French

  • couleur
94 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
162 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
145 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
326 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3889 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
241 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
243 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
345 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
204 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
204 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
316 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1599 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2522 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1280 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1748 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1769 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30602 Morohashi
2029 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4956 New Nelson (John Haig)
1753 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1890 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
405 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
127 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2556 2001 Kanji
2n4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
2771.7 Four corner code
1-31-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8272 Unicode hex code

即

7 strokes
Radical:
kneel 卩
Parts:
卩 艮
Variants:
皍 卽
instant, namely, as is, conform, agree, adapt
Kun:
つ.く、 つ.ける、 すなわ.ち
On:
ソク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1167 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 即 【ソク】 instantly, immediately, at once, equals, means, is, oneness (of two opposing things), inseparability
  • 即位 【ソクイ】 accession to the throne, enthronement
  • 相即 【ソウソク】 coming together and dissolving into oneness, being closely related, being inseparable
  • 即即 【ソクソク】 immediate sex (without taking a shower first)

Kun reading compounds

  • 就く 【つく】 to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.), to assume, to be hired, to be employed, to ascend (the throne), to accede, to start (on a journey), to commence, to depart, to study (under teacher), to be an apprentice
  • 就ける 【つける】 to install (a king, emperor, etc.), to appoint (to a post), to promote, to assign (to study under)
  • 即ち 【すなわち】 that is (to say), namely, i.e., precisely, exactly, just, nothing but, neither more nor less, (and) then

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji2
Korean:
jeug

Spanish

  • a la vez
  • sino
  • enseguida
  • es decir

Portuguese

  • instante
  • a saber
  • como está
  • comformar-se
  • concordar
  • adaptar-se

French

  • instantané
  • c'est-à-dire
  • en l'état
  • se conformer
  • être d'accord
  • être adapté
1534 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1052 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3886 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1678 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1113 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
648 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
463 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
471 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
700 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
253 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1439 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
763 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1036 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1474 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2855 Morohashi
1120 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
633 New Nelson (John Haig)
1462 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1572 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1102 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3844 2001 Kanji
2e5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
7772.0 Four corner code
1-34-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5373 Unicode hex code

是

9 strokes
Radical:
sun, day 日
Parts:
日 疋
Variants:
昰
just so, this, right, justice
Kun:
これ、 この、 ここ
On:
ゼ、 シ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1045 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 是 【ゼ】 righteousness, justice, right
  • 是正 【ゼセイ】 correction, revision, redressing, rectifying
  • 国是 【コクゼ】 national policy
  • 党是 【トウゼ】 party platform, party principles

Kun reading compounds

  • 此れ 【これ】 this, this one, this person, now, this point (in time), here, used to stress the subject of a sentence, I, me
  • 此れから 【これから】 from now on, after this, in the future, in future, from here, from this point
  • 此処 【ここ】 here, this place, this point, here, now, these past ... (e.g. three years), these last ..., the next ... (e.g. few days), these next ...

Readings

Japanese names:
すなお、 ただし、 つな、 ゆき、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
si

Spanish

  • correcto
  • justo
  • recto
  • esto
  • ni más ni menos

Portuguese

  • somente assim
  • isto
  • certo
  • justiça

French

  • comme il faut
  • ceci
  • juste
  • justice
822 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
910 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1404 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2120 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
786 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1407 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
947 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1591 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1698 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1670 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
972 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3090 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1578 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2157 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
395 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13859 Morohashi
2436 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2451 New Nelson (John Haig)
388 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
414 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1262 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3870 2001 Kanji
4c5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-5 SKIP code
6080.1 Four corner code
1-32-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
662f Unicode hex code

空

8 strokes
Radical:
cave 穴
Parts:
儿 宀 工 穴
empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
Kun:
そら、 あ.く、 あ.き、 あ.ける、 から、 す.く、 す.かす、 むな.しい
On:
クウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
304 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 空 【クウ】 empty air, sky, shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon), emptiness, air force, fruitlessness, meaninglessness, void (one of the five elements), empty (e.g. set)
  • 空域 【クウイキ】 airspace
  • 領空 【リョウクウ】 territorial airspace
  • 防空 【ボウクウ】 air defense, air defence

Kun reading compounds

  • 空 【そら】 sky, the air, the heavens, weather, far-off place, distant place, state of mind, feeling, (from) memory, (by) heart, falsehood, lie, somehow, vaguely, fake
  • 空模様 【そらもよう】 look of the sky, weather
  • 定めなき空 【さだめなきそら】 changeable weather
  • 晴れた空 【はれたそら】 clear sky, cloudless sky
  • 開く 【あく】 to open (e.g. doors), to open (e.g. business, etc.), to be empty, to be vacant, to be available, to be free, to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.), to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to come to an end, to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to have a hole, to form a gap, to have an interval (between events)
  • 空き 【あき】 space, room, gap, emptiness, vacancy, opening, empty seat, free time, time to spare, disuse, unused thing
  • 空き缶 【あきかん】 empty can
  • 開ける 【あける】 to open (a door, etc.), to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package), to unlock, to open (for business, etc.), to empty, to remove, to make space, to make room, to move out, to clear out, to be away from (e.g. one's house), to leave (temporarily), to dawn, to grow light, to end (of a period, season), to begin (of the New Year), to leave (one's schedule) open, to make time (for), to make (a hole), to open up (a hole)
  • 空 【から】 emptiness, being empty, not carrying anything, unburdened, empty-handed, dishonoured (bill, promise, etc.), false, no-show (reservation), put-on (cheeriness, courage, etc.), empty (compliments), insincere
  • 空手 【からて】 karate, being empty-handed, having nothing in one's hands
  • もぬけの殻 【もぬけのから】 completely empty (of a residence, etc.), vacant, deserted, body from which the soul has left, corpse, shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
  • 空く 【すく】 to become less crowded, to thin out, to get empty, to be hungry
  • 空かす 【すかす】 to feel hungry, to get hungry
  • 虚しい 【むなしい】 empty, void, vacant, vain, fruitless, futile, ineffective, lifeless

Readings

Japanese names:
うつ、 き、 く
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kong1, kong4
Korean:
gong

Spanish

  • cielo
  • atmósfera
  • vacío
  • vacante
  • quedarse vacío
  • vaciar

Portuguese

  • esvaziar
  • ceú
  • desocupado
  • vazio
  • vácuo

French

  • vide
  • ciel
  • vacant
  • creux
65 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
66 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
15 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
233 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3317 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
184 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
77 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
723 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
140 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
140 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
461 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1452 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2767 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1418 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1913 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1327 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25415 Morohashi
2227 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4192 New Nelson (John Haig)
1317 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1414 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
304 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
73 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
772 2001 Kanji
3m5.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2-5-3 SKIP code
3010.1 Four corner code
1-22-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a7a Unicode hex code