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三

3 strokes
Radical:
one 一
Parts:
一 二
Variants:
弎
three
Kun:
み、 み.つ、 みっ.つ
On:
サン、 ゾウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
14 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 三 【サン】 three, 3
  • 三 【サン】 three
  • 十三 【ジュウサン】 thirteen, 13, king
  • 七三 【シチサン】 7 or 3 ratio, hair parted on one side
  • 四三 【シソウ】 one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand, three and a four (in dice games)

Kun reading compounds

  • 三 【さん】 three, 3
  • 三十日 【みそか】 last day of the month
  • 三つ 【みっつ】 three, three years of age
  • 三つ折り 【みつおり】 threefold, folded in three
  • 三つ 【みっつ】 three, three years of age
  • ３つの密 【みっつのみつ】 three Cs, three conditions that facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases (closed spaces, crowds, and close contact)

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 さ、 さい、 さえ、 さぶ、 ざ、 ざえ、 ざぶ、 そう、 ぞ、 ただ、 みつ、 みん、 も、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
san1
Korean:
sam

Spanish

  • tres
  • 3

Portuguese

  • três

French

  • trois
3 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
3 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
23 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
10 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
8 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
4 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
22 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
4 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
5 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2423 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1225 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1689 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12 Morohashi
1924 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
8 New Nelson (John Haig)
3 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
3 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
21 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
10 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3072 2001 Kanji
0a3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-2 SKIP code
1010.1 Four corner code
1-27-16 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e09 Unicode hex code

拍

8 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
扎 白
Variants:
clap, beat (music)
On:
ハク、 ヒョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1373 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 拍 【ハク】 beat, mora
  • 拍車 【ハクシャ】 (riding) spur, spurring on, acceleration, impetus
  • 強拍 【キョウハク】 downbeat, accented beat
  • 上拍 【ジョウハク】 upbeat
  • 拍子 【ヒョウシ】 (musical) time, tempo, beat, rhythm, the moment, the instance, chance
  • 拍子抜け 【ヒョウシヌケ】 anticlimax, let-down, disappointment, loss of interest

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pai1
Korean:
bag

Spanish

  • aplaudir
  • batir palmas
  • marcar el ritmo (música)

Portuguese

  • aplauso
  • batida (música)

French

  • applaudir
  • temps (musique)
  • battement (coeur)
1695 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1529 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1872 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1440 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1346 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1178 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1236 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1255 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
881 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
361 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
225 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
269 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
659 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11952 Morohashi
304 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2114 New Nelson (John Haig)
652 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
704 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1184 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1378 2001 Kanji
3c5.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
5600.0 Four corner code
1-39-79 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62cd Unicode hex code

子

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed 子
Parts:
子
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
こ、 -こ、 ね
On:
シ、 ス、 ツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code

揃

12 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
一 并 刈 扎 月
be complete, uniform, all present
Kun:
そろ.える、 そろ.う、 そろ.い、 き.る
On:
セン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2412 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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Kun reading compounds

  • 揃える 【そろえる】 to collect, to gather, to get together, to complete (a collection), to arrange, to put in order, to prepare, to get ready, to make uniform, to make even, to match
  • 揃う 【そろう】 to be complete, to be all present, to make a full set, to be satisfied (of conditions), to be equal, to be uniform, to be even, to match, to agree, to gather, to assemble, to be collected
  • 揃い 【そろい】 set, suit, uniform collection, matching items, entirely, all, every one, nothing but
  • 揃い踏み 【そろいぶみ】 ritual stamping in the ring, lineup, appearance together
  • 一揃い 【ひとそろい】 one set, one suit

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian1
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

  • completo
  • uniforme
  • colección
  • coleccionar
  • reunir
  • completar

Portuguese

French

1395 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1957 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
719 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
539 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12319X Morohashi
590 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2226 New Nelson (John Haig)
2255 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2358 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1343 2001 Kanji
3c9.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
5802.1 Four corner code
1-34-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
63c3 Unicode hex code