| 1326 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1823 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 427 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1446 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1046 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 559 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 571 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 580 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1878 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 90 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 94 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 62 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 66 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 985 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 589 | Morohashi |
| 85 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 192 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 976 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1050 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1150 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1939 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 侍従 【ジジュウ】 chamberlain
- 侍医 【ジイ】 court physician
- 内侍 【ナイシ】 maid of honor, maid of honour, lady-in-waiting
- 陪侍 【バイジ】 retainer, attending on the nobility
- 内侍 【ナイシ】 maid of honor, maid of honour, lady-in-waiting
Kun reading compounds
- 侍 【さむらい】 warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period), samurai, man in attendance (on a person of high standing), retainer
- 侍蟻 【さむらいあり】 Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)
- 二四六九士 【にしむくさむらい】 nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)
- 七人の侍 【しちにんのさむらい】 Seven Samurai (film by Akira Kurosawa)
- 侍る 【はべる】 to wait upon, to serve
Readings
- Japanese names:
- かみ
- Korean:
- si
Spanish
- sirviente
- criado
- samurai
Portuguese
- garçom
- samurai
- esperar sobre
- servir
French
- serviteur
- samouraï
- servir
| 2148 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2a6.11 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-2-6 | SKIP code |
| 2424.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-88 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 4f8d | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
- 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
- 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
- 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
- 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
- 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
- 読点 【トウテン】 comma
- 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
- 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)
Kun reading compounds
- 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
Readings
- Japanese names:
- よみ
- Korean:
- dog, du
Spanish
- leer
Portuguese
- leia
French
- lire
| 123 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 206 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 189 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 484 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4375 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 55 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 88 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2142 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 244 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 244 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 180 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1689 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1943 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1038 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1401 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 354 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 35580P | Morohashi |
| 1541 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5629 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 348 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 372 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 323 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 233 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3057 | 2001 Kanji |
| 7a7.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-7-7 | SKIP code |
| 0461.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-38-41 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8aad | Unicode hex code |