Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
sound
Parts:
rhyme, elegance, tone
On:
イン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2148 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 韻 【イン】 rhyme, rhyme (of a Chinese character), rime
  • 韻律 【インリツ】 metre (of a poem), meter, rhythm, prosody
  • 哀韻 【アイイン】 sad tone (of music, words, etc.)
  • 類韻 【ルイイン】 assonance

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yun4
Korean:
un

Spanish

  • tono
  • rima
  • ritmo
  • elegancia

Portuguese

  • rime
  • elegância
  • tom

French

  • rime
  • élégance
  • son (phonème)
1015 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1940 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5115 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1294 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1895 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2824 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
349 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
350 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1903 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1880 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2279 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1178 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1609 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
492 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43307 Morohashi
1811 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6611 New Nelson (John Haig)
481 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
520 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1925 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
461 2001 Kanji
7b12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-10 SKIP code
0668.6 Four corner code
1-17-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
97fb Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
Variants:
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kun:
ことつか.うつか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
  • 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
  • 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
  • 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency

Kun reading compounds

  • 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
  • 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
  • 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cosa
  • hecho
  • asunto
  • acción

Portuguese

  • matéria
  • coisa
  • fato
  • negócios
  • razão
  • possivelmente

French

  • fait
  • chose
  • matière
  • affaire
  • raison
  • peut-être
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
309 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
293 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
272 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
73 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
108 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
768 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
80 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
30 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4384 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
241 Morohashi
3567 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 New Nelson (John Haig)
1156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
300 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1547 2001 Kanji
0a8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
5000.7 Four corner code
1-27-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e8b Unicode hex code