Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
lower, short, humble
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
435 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 低 【テイ】 low (level, value, price, etc.)
  • 低温 【テイオン】 low temperature
  • 高低 【コウテイ】 high and low, rise and fall
  • 西高東低 【セイコウトウテイ】 high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east

Kun reading compounds

  • 低い 【ひくい】 low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.), low (position), close to the ground, short (height), deep (voice), in a low key, low (volume)
  • 低い優先順位 【ひくいゆうせんじゅんい】 low priority (e.g. cell)
  • 低める 【ひくめる】 to lower, to be lowered
  • 低まる 【ひくまる】 to lower, to be lowered

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
di1
Korean:
jeo

Spanish

  • bajo
  • barato
  • humilde
  • pequeño
  • bajar
  • ser bajado

Portuguese

  • abaixe
  • humilde
  • curto

French

  • bas
  • petit (taille)
  • humble
677 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
575 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
548 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
518 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
406 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
690 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
113 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
561 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
570 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
108 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
82 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
82 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
54 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
57 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1848 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
504 Morohashi
73 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
166 New Nelson (John Haig)
1831 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1973 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
487 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2156 2001 Kanji
2a5.15 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
2224.0 Four corner code
1-36-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f4e Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
tide, salt water, opportunity
Kun:
しおうしお
On:
チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1231 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 潮流 【チョウリュウ】 tide, tidal current, tendency, drift, trend
  • 潮位 【チョウイ】 tide level
  • 思潮 【シチョウ】 trend of thought
  • 退潮 【タイチョウ】 ebb tide, waning fortunes

Kun reading compounds

  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 潮風 【しおかぜ】 salty sea breeze, salt wind
  • 黒潮 【くろしお】 Kuroshio Current, Japan Current
  • 赤潮 【あかしお】 red tide
  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 潮汁 【うしおじる】 thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 夕潮 【ゆうしお】 evening tide

Readings

Japanese names:
いた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chao2
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • agua de mar
  • marea
  • tendencia
  • oportunidad

Portuguese

  • maré
  • água salgada
  • oportunidade

French

  • marée
  • eau salée
  • opportunité
952 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
941 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1105 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2702 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
980 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1504 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2275 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
468 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
476 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1508 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1252 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
916 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
516 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
675 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
143 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18277P Morohashi
739 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3336 New Nelson (John Haig)
141 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
152 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
988 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-36-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f6e Unicode hex code