Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
rap 攴 (攵)
Parts:
Variants:
cleverness, agile, alert
Kun:
さとい
On:
ビン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1042 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 敏 【ビン】 quick, nimble, agile, sharp, smart, clever
  • 敏感 【ビンカン】 sensitive, alert, aware, susceptible
  • 穎敏 【エイビン】 sharp (mind), keen, acute
  • 慧敏 【ケイビン】 clever, of quick intellect

Kun reading compounds

  • 聡い 【さとい】 clever, smart, sharp (ear, etc.), sensitive, discerning

Readings

Japanese names:
さとし、 ちょう、 とし、 び
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
min3
Korean:
min

Spanish

  • ingenioso
  • inteligente
  • ágil

Portuguese

  • inteligência
  • ágil
  • alerta

French

  • vivacité d'esprit
  • vif
  • intelligent
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1381 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2047 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1429 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1389 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1409 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1735 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1857 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1800 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
938 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1675 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
887 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1206 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
469 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13202P Morohashi
1322 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2337 New Nelson (John Haig)
459 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
498 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1342 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2366 2001 Kanji
4i6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
8854.0 Four corner code
1-41-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
654f Unicode hex code