Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
wine, alcohol
Parts:
sake, alcohol
Kun:
さけさか-
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1006 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 酒 【サケ】 alcohol, sake
  • 酒税 【シュゼイ】 liquor tax, tax on alcohol
  • 洋酒 【ヨウシュ】 Western wine and spirits, Western liquor
  • 清酒 【セイシュ】 refined sake

Kun reading compounds

  • 酒 【さけ】 alcohol, sake
  • 酒好き 【さけずき】 love of drink, fondness for alcohol, person who likes to drink, drinker
  • 手酌酒 【てじゃくさけ】 pouring one's own drinks, drinking alone
  • 小酒 【こさけ】 small drink, small amount of alcohol

Readings

Japanese names:
き、 さ、 し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiu3
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • sake
  • alcohol
  • vino de arroz

Portuguese

  • sake
  • álcool

French

  • saké
  • alcool
422 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
318 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
302 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
781 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2573 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
347 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
972 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1066 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
517 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
526 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
144 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1789 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
532 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
328 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
403 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1440 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39776 Morohashi
444 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6160 New Nelson (John Haig)
1428 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1535 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
356 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
375 2001 Kanji
3a7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3116.0 Four corner code
1-28-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9152 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
hand
Kun:
て--てた-
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
60 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 手術 【シュジュツ】 surgery, operation, procedure, skill with one's hands, sleight of hand
  • 手記 【シュキ】 note, memorandum, memo, memoirs, personal account
  • 二塁手 【ニルイシュ】 second baseman
  • 名手 【メイシュ】 master, expert, brilliant move (in go, shogi, etc.), excellent move
  • 交際上手 【コウサイジョウズ】 good at socializing, sociability, being a good mixer
  • 処世上手 【ショセイジョウズ】 knowing how to get on in the world, knowing the secret of success in life

Kun reading compounds

  • 手 【て】 hand, arm, forepaw, foreleg, handle, hand, worker, help, trouble, care, effort, means, way, trick, move, technique, workmanship, hand, handwriting, kind, type, sort, one's hands, one's possession, ability to cope, hand (of cards), direction, move (in go, shogi, etc.)
  • 手足 【てあし】 hands and feet, limbs, person at one's beck and call, person at hand, reliable worker
  • 逆手 【ぎゃくて】 underhand grip, backhand grip (e.g. in tennis), unexpected twist, turning the tables (on an opponent)
  • 担い手 【にないて】 bearer, carrier, person bearing responsibility, person in charge, supporter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • mano

Portuguese

  • mão

French

  • main
28 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
35 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
32 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
42 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1827 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
37 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
54 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
118 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.19 Japanese for Busy People
57 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
57 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
170 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
847 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4267 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2155 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2907 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
644 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11768 Morohashi
3456 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2060 New Nelson (John Haig)
637 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
687 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
57 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
30 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2247 2001 Kanji
3c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
2-1-3 SKIP code
2050.0 Four corner code
1-28-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
624b Unicode hex code