Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
becoming, resemble, counterfeit, imitate, suitable
Kun:
に.るひ.る
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
923 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 似我蜂 【ジガバチ】 red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa), thread-waisted wasp (any wasp of family Sphecidae, incl. digger wasps and mud daubers)
  • 酷似 【コクジ】 resembling closely, being strikingly similar, bearing a strong likeness
  • 疑似 【ギジ】 pseudo, quasi, false, para-, mock, sham, suspected (case, e.g. of disease)

Kun reading compounds

  • 似る 【にる】 to resemble, to look like, to be like, to be alike, to be similar, to take after

Readings

Japanese names:
にた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si4, shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • parecerse a
  • parecerse
  • ser similar

Portuguese

  • formação
  • lembra
  • falsificar
  • imitar
  • conveniente

French

  • ressembler
  • devenir
  • contrefaire
  • imiter
  • approprié
625 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
724 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
696 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1219 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
376 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
775 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
311 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
350 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1486 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1583 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1172 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
77 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
71 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
43 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
46 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1038 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
485 Morohashi
63 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
138 New Nelson (John Haig)
1029 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1106 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
669 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2162 2001 Kanji
2a5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
2820.0 Four corner code
1-27-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f3c Unicode hex code

18 strokes
Radical:
fish
Parts:
carp
Kun:
こい
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2369 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 養鯉 【ヨウリ】 carp breeding

Kun reading compounds

  • 鯉 【こい】 common carp (Cyprinus carpio), koi carp
  • 鯉口 【こいぐち】 mouth of a (sword) sheath
  • 俎上の鯉 【そじょうのこい】 someone doomed to their fate, fish on the chopping board
  • まな板の上の鯉 【まないたのうえのこい】 someone doomed to their fate, fish on the chopping board

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li3
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • carpa

Portuguese

French

  • carpe
5299 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1991 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2764 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2271 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2358 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1211 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1658 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
178 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
46182 Morohashi
1879 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6874 New Nelson (John Haig)
176 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
188 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-7 SKIP code
2631.4 Four corner code
1-24-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9bc9 Unicode hex code