Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
shell
Parts:
buy
Kun:
か.う
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
520 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 買収 【バイシュウ】 acquisition (esp. corporate), buy-out, takeover, purchase, bribery, buying off, corruption
  • 買収計画 【バイシュウケイカク】 purchasing plan, acquisition plan
  • 不買 【フバイ】 not buying
  • 人身売買 【ジンシンバイバイ】 slave trade, white-slave trade, human trafficking

Kun reading compounds

  • 買う 【かう】 to buy, to purchase, to value (highly), to think highly of, to have a high opinion of, to appreciate, to recognize, to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.), to elicit (e.g. sneers), to invite (e.g. scorn), to evoke, to arouse, to win (someone's favour), to accept, to take on, to take up, to pay for (a prostitute, geisha, etc.)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mai3
Korean:
mae

Spanish

  • comprar

Portuguese

  • comprar

French

  • acheter
300 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
212 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
193 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
330 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3637 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
48 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
89 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1753 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
241 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
241 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
188 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1731 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3211 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1662 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2252 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
839 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36708 Morohashi
2598 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5793 New Nelson (John Haig)
831 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
894 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
433 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
221 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3661 2001 Kanji
5g7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-7 SKIP code
6080.6 Four corner code
1-39-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8cb7 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
be complete, uniform, all present
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2412 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 揃える 【そろえる】 to collect, to gather, to get together, to complete (a collection), to arrange, to put in order, to prepare, to get ready, to make uniform, to make even, to match
  • 揃う 【そろう】 to be complete, to be all present, to make a full set, to be satisfied (of conditions), to be equal, to be uniform, to be even, to match, to agree, to gather, to assemble, to be collected
  • 揃い 【そろい】 set, suit, uniform collection, matching items, entirely, all, every one, nothing but
  • 揃い踏み 【そろいぶみ】 ritual stamping in the ring, lineup, appearance together
  • 一揃い 【ひとそろい】 one set, one suit

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian1
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

  • completo
  • uniforme
  • colección
  • coleccionar
  • reunir
  • completar

Portuguese

French

1395 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1957 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
719 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
539 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12319X Morohashi
590 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2226 New Nelson (John Haig)
2255 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2358 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1343 2001 Kanji
3c9.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
5802.1 Four corner code
1-34-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
63c3 Unicode hex code