Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
pay respects, visit, ask, inquire, question, implore
Kun:
うかが.う
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
2209 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 伺候 【シコウ】 waiting upon (someone)
  • 経伺 【ケイシ】 asking for instructions, consulting and obtaining approval
  • 奉伺 【ホウシ】 inquiring about (one's health)

Kun reading compounds

  • 伺う 【うかがう】 to call on someone, to call at a place, to pay a visit, to wait on someone, to ask, to inquire, to hear, to be told, to implore (a god for an oracle), to seek direction (from your superior), to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si4, ci4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • hacer una visita
  • preguntar por

Portuguese

  • retribuir visita
  • perguntar
  • indagar
  • implorar

French

  • visiter (hon)
  • présenter ses respects
  • demander
  • s'informer
  • questionner
  • implorer
1313 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1963 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
395 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1315 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
310 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1761 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1891 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1245 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
76 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
78 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
50 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
53 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1882 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
483 Morohashi
69 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
156 New Nelson (John Haig)
1864 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2008 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1094 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2149 2001 Kanji
2a5.23 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
3-3-4 SKIP code
2722.0 Four corner code
1-27-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f3a Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
Variants:
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kun:
ことつか.うつか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
  • 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
  • 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
  • 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency

Kun reading compounds

  • 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
  • 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
  • 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cosa
  • hecho
  • asunto
  • acción

Portuguese

  • matéria
  • coisa
  • fato
  • negócios
  • razão
  • possivelmente

French

  • fait
  • chose
  • matière
  • affaire
  • raison
  • peut-être
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
309 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
293 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
272 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
73 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
108 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
768 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
80 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
30 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4384 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
241 Morohashi
3567 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 New Nelson (John Haig)
1156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
300 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1547 2001 Kanji
0a8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
5000.7 Four corner code
1-27-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e8b Unicode hex code