Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
lion
Kun:
しし
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1914 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 獅子 【シシ】 lion, left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
  • 獅子舞 【シシマイ】 lion dance, traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume

Kun reading compounds

  • 獅子 【しし】 lion, left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
  • 獅子舞 【ししまい】 lion dance, traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi1
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • león

Portuguese

French

2904 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1835 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
825 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
613 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
20609 Morohashi
3599 New Nelson (John Haig)
2345 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2433 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3g10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
4122.7 Four corner code
1-27-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7345 Unicode hex code