Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
generation, world, society, public
Kun:
On:
セイソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
135 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 世 【セイ】 counter for generations, epoch
  • 世紀 【セイキ】 century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
  • 近世 【キンセイ】 recent past, recent times, early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)
  • 創世 【ソウセイ】 creation of the world
  • 世 【セイ】 counter for generations, epoch
  • 世紀 【セイキ】 century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
  • 夜店 【ヨミセ】 night stall, night shop, night fair
  • 救世 【キュウセイ】 salvation

Kun reading compounds

  • 世 【よ】 world, society, public, life, lifetime, age, era, period, epoch, generation, reign, rule, the times, world (of existence)
  • 世の中 【よのなか】 society, the world, the times
  • 千代 【ちよ】 thousand years, very long period, forever
  • 君が代 【きみがよ】 Imperial reign, Kimigayo (Japanese national anthem)

Readings

Japanese names:
とし、 ゆ、 ゆき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
se

Spanish

  • generación
  • mundo
  • edad

Portuguese

  • geração
  • mundo
  • sociedade
  • pública

French

  • génération
  • monde
  • société
  • public
263 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
344 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
327 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
152 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
95 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
177 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
105 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
335 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.13 Japanese for Busy People
252 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
252 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
156 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
13 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4308 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2178 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2932 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
28 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31 Morohashi
3496 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
20 New Nelson (John Haig)
28 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
28 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
81 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
254 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1975 2001 Kanji
0a5.37 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
4-4-4 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
4-4-2 SKIP code
4471.7 Four corner code
1-32-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e16 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
广
transit, ford, ferry, cross, import, deliver, diameter, migrate
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
446 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 渡航 【トコウ】 voyage, passage, travelling
  • 渡欧 【トオウ】 going to Europe, trip to Europe
  • 過渡 【カト】 crossing, ferry, transient, changing old to new
  • 譲渡 【ジョウト】 transfer, assignment, conveyance

Kun reading compounds

  • 渡る 【わたる】 to cross over, to go across, to extend, to cover, to range, to span
  • 渡る世間に鬼はない 【わたるせけんにおにはない】 all people aren't evil, don't distrust everyone, there is kindness to be found everywhere
  • 渡す 【わたす】 to ferry across (e.g. a river), to carry across, to traverse, to lay across, to build across, to hand over, to hand in, to pass, to give, to transfer

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 たり、 わたな、 わたら、 わたり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du4
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • vadear
  • cruzar
  • pasar
  • emigrar
  • entregar

Portuguese

  • transito
  • vau
  • balsa
  • cruzar
  • importar
  • entregar
  • diâmetro
  • emigrar

French

  • transit
  • gué
  • bac
  • traversée
  • import
  • livrer
  • diamètre
  • migrer
1636 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
615 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2635 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
897 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
695 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1586 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.14 Japanese for Busy People
378 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
379 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
205 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1225 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
746 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
445 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
560 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1203 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17765 Morohashi
611 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3247 New Nelson (John Haig)
1195 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1279 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1561 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
367 2001 Kanji
3a9.35 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
1-3-8 SKIP code
3014.7 Four corner code
1-37-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e21 Unicode hex code