Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
red, naked
Parts:
Variants:
pardon, forgiveness
Kun:
ゆる.す
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1868 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 赦 【シャ】 pardon, amnesty
  • 赦免 【シャメン】 pardon, remission, amnesty
  • 特赦 【トクシャ】 special pardon, (general) amnesty
  • 情け容赦 【ナサケヨウシャ】 mercy

Kun reading compounds

  • 許す 【ゆるす】 to permit, to allow, to approve, to consent to, to forgive, to pardon, to excuse, to tolerate, to exempt (someone) from, to remit, to release, to let off, to acknowledge, to admit, to trust, to confide in, to let one's guard down, to give up (points in a game, distance in a race, etc.), to yield

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
she4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • perdón
  • perdonar

Portuguese

  • absolvição
  • perdão

French

  • pardon
1336 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1967 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4536 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1739 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1788 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1570 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1675 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1897 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1752 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1870 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
993 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1344 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1760 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36999 Morohashi
1478 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5841 New Nelson (John Haig)
1744 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1881 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1445 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1466 2001 Kanji
4i7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
4834.0 Four corner code
1-28-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8d66 Unicode hex code