Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
second 乛 (乙, ⺄, 乚)
Parts:
milk, breasts
Kun:
ちち
On:
ニュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1289 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 乳製品 【ニュウセイヒン】 dairy products
  • 乳児 【ニュウジ】 infant (below 1 year old), suckling baby
  • 豆乳 【トウニュウ】 soy milk
  • 生乳 【セイニュウ】 raw milk

Kun reading compounds

  • 乳 【ちち】 milk, breast, loop, decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
  • 乳首 【ちくび】 nipple, teat
  • 無い乳 【ないちち】 very small breasts
  • もらい乳 【もらいぢち】 having one's baby nursed by another woman, wet-nursing, breast milk received from another woman
  • 乳 【ちち】 milk, breast, loop, decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
  • 乳房 【ちぶさ】 breast, udder
  • 無い乳 【ないちち】 very small breasts
  • もらい乳 【もらいぢち】 having one's baby nursed by another woman, wet-nursing, breast milk received from another woman

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ru3
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • leche
  • pecho

Portuguese

  • leite
  • peitos

French

  • lait
  • seins
961 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
951 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
873 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
266 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1216 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
291 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
657 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
939 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
969 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
821 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
29 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1823 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1306 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
737 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
190X Morohashi
1438 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
61 New Nelson (John Haig)
729 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
786 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
871 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2056 2001 Kanji
3n4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-1 SKIP code
1-6-1 SKIP code
2241.0 Four corner code
1-38-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e73 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
squeeze
Kun:
しぼ.る
On:
サク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2046 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 搾取 【サクシュ】 exploitation, bleeding dry, squeezing dry, milking (e.g. a cow's teat), extracting (a liquid) through squeezing
  • 搾乳 【サクニュウ】 milking (a cow, goat, etc.), breast pumping, milk expression
  • 圧搾 【アッサク】 pressure, compression, pressing

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zha4
Korean:
chag

Spanish

  • apretón
  • estrujón
  • presión
  • apretar
  • estrujar
  • comprimir

Portuguese

  • espremer

French

  • presser
1301 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2015 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1975 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1777 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1377 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1497 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1596 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1484 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
920 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
798 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
466 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
594 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1336 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12553 Morohashi
649 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2251 New Nelson (John Haig)
1324 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1422 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1629 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1354 2001 Kanji
3c10.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
5301.1 Four corner code
1-26-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
643e Unicode hex code