Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
domesticate, raise, keep, feed
Kun:
か.う
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
1392 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 飼料 【シリョウ】 fodder, feed
  • 飼育 【シイク】 breeding, raising, rearing
  • 放飼 【ホウシ】 free-range rearing, letting (animals) roam freely, pasturing, releasing (insects) into the wild

Kun reading compounds

  • 飼う 【かう】 to keep (a pet or other animal), to have, to own, to raise, to rear, to feed

Readings

Japanese names:
かい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • criar
  • mantener
  • tener animales

Portuguese

  • domesticar
  • levantar
  • guardar
  • alimentar

French

  • domestiquer
  • élever
  • garder
  • nourrir
722 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1322 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1432 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5163 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1156 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1904 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1762 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1892 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1348 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1905 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2149 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1128 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1529 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1884 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44107P Morohashi
1716 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6685 New Nelson (John Haig)
1866 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2010 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
777 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2849 2001 Kanji
8b5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8772.0 Four corner code
1-27-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98fc Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
weapon, lance
Parts:
Variants:
kill, murder, butcher, slice off, split, diminish, reduce, spoil
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
581 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 殺意 【サツイ】 intent to kill, intent to murder, urge to kill, murderous impulse
  • 殺害 【サツガイ】 killing, murder
  • 他殺 【タサツ】 murder
  • 併殺 【ヘイサツ】 double play
  • 相殺 【ソウサイ】 offset, offsetting each other, cancelling each other out, counterbalancing, set-off, setoff, killing each other
  • 減殺 【ゲンサイ】 lessening, diminishing, reducing
  • 殺害 【サツガイ】 killing, murder
  • 刹那 【セツナ】 moment, instant, kshana, duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second), shortest possible interval of time
  • 歳殺 【サイセツ】 Saisetsu, one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar

Kun reading compounds

  • 殺す 【ころす】 to kill, to slay, to murder, to slaughter, to suppress, to block, to hamper, to destroy (e.g. talent), to eliminate (e.g. an odour), to spoil (e.g. a flavour), to kill (e.g. one's speed), to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.), to hold back, to stifle (a yawn, laugh, etc.), to hold (one's breath), to put out (a runner), to pawn, to put in hock
  • 削ぐ 【そぐ】 to chip (off), to shave off, to slice off, to cut off, to sharpen, to dampen (one's enthusiasm, interest, etc.), to reduce, to diminish, to weaken, to spoil
  • 殺める 【あやめる】 to wound, to murder

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sha1, shai4
Korean:
sal, soe

Spanish

  • matar
  • quitar la vida

Portuguese

  • matar
  • assassinato
  • açougueiro
  • fatiar
  • partir
  • diminuir
  • reduzir
  • corromper

French

  • tuer
  • meurtre
  • massacrer
  • abattre
  • trancher
  • fendre
  • diminuer
  • réduire
  • gâcher
614 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
515 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
488 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
546 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2454 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
419 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
657 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1138 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
576 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
585 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
610 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1140 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1677 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
889 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1208 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1507 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16629 Morohashi
1324 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2994 New Nelson (John Haig)
1493 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1607 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
470 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
545 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2968 2001 Kanji
4a6.35 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
4794.7 Four corner code
1-27-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bba Unicode hex code