| 1201 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 913 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 534 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 938 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 333 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1830 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1441 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1533 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1173 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 126 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 174 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 114 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 132 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1020 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 1038 | Morohashi |
| 154 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 299 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1011 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1086 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1605 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
938 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 傾斜 【ケイシャ】 inclination, slant, slope, bevel, list, dip, tilt, lean
- 傾向 【ケイコウ】 tendency, trend, inclination
- 前傾 【ゼンケイ】 forward inclination (of the body), bending forward, anteversion
- 右傾 【ウケイ】 leaning to the right, leaning to the (political) right, rightist tendency, becoming right-wing
Kun reading compounds
- 傾く 【かたむく】 to incline toward, to slant, to lurch, to heel over, to be disposed to, to trend toward, to be prone to, to go down (sun, moon), to sink, to decline, to wane, to ebb, to fall away, to tend (towards), to be inclined (to), to come around to (opinion, etc.)
- 傾ける 【かたむける】 to incline, to lean, to tip, to tilt, to slant, to bend, to list, to devote oneself to, to concentrate on, to pour one's energy into, to ruin, to squander, to empty, to drink (alcohol)
- 傾く 【かたむく】 to incline toward, to slant, to lurch, to heel over, to be disposed to, to trend toward, to be prone to, to go down (sun, moon), to sink, to decline, to wane, to ebb, to fall away, to tend (towards), to be inclined (to), to come around to (opinion, etc.)
- 傾げる 【かしげる】 to tilt (esp. head), to lean, to incline, to slant
- 傾げる 【かしげる】 to tilt (esp. head), to lean, to incline, to slant
Readings
- Korean:
- gyeong
Spanish
- apoyo
- inclinación
- hundimiento
- prejuicio
- predisposición
- apoyarse
- inclinarse
- hundirse
- arruinar
- estropear
Portuguese
- inclinar
- inclinação
- tendência
- declínio
- afundar
- ruina
- viés
French
- incliner
- pencher
- tendance
- déclin
- sombrer
- ruiner
- gîte (bateau)
| 2161 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2a11.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-2-11 | SKIP code |
| 2128.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-23-25 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 50be | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1504 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 斜 【ハス】 diagonal
- 斜面 【シャメン】 slope, slanting surface, bevel
- 急傾斜 【キュウケイシャ】 steep slope, steep incline
- 偏斜 【ヘンシャ】 declination, deviation
Kun reading compounds
- 斜め 【ななめ】 slanting, tilted, sloping, diagonal, oblique, distorted (feeling), slanted (e.g. view of the world), bad (mood), amiss, awry
- 斜め上 【ななめうえ】 diagonally upward, (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
- 斜 【はす】 diagonal
- 斜交い 【はすかい】 aslant, oblique, diagonal, askew, cater-cornered, catty-cornered
Readings
- Korean:
- sa, ya
Spanish
- diagonal
- inclinado
- oblicuo
Portuguese
- diagonal
- inclinado
- oblíquo
French
- penché
- diagonale
- oblique
| 1337 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1757 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2074 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1488 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1396 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1392 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1069 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1116 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1391 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 952 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1878 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 999 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1351 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1678 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 13509X | Morohashi |
| 1486 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2376 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1662 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1791 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1446 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2855 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2a9.21 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-7-4 | SKIP code |
| 8490.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-28-48 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 659c | Unicode hex code |
生
life, genuine, birth
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生育 【セイイク】 birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding
- 回生 【カイセイ】 resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student
- 公衆衛生 【コウシュウエイセイ】 public health, public hygiene, sanitation
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生家 【セイカ】 house where one was born, one's parents' house
- 殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal
- 死生 【シセイ】 life and death
Kun reading compounds
- 生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
- 生きる糧 【いきるかて】 source of vitality, life sustenance
- 生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
- 生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
- 生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
- 生う 【おう】 to grow (of plants), to spring up
- 生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
- 生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to let grow (e.g. weeds)
- 生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
- 生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up, uncoated metal
- 死に生き 【しにいき】 death and life, death or life, death
- 生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), raw, bareback, live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, blank (e.g. disk), unused, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory, cash, tipsiness
- 生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
- お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
- 現ナマ 【げんナマ】 cold cash, hard cash
- 生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
- 生す 【なす】 to have a child
- 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
- Korean:
- saeng
Spanish
- vida
- nacimiento
- vivir
- existir
- nacer
- dar a luz
- puro
- crudo
Portuguese
- vida
- genuína
- nascimento
French
- vie
- naissance
- authentique
- cru
| 34 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 44 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 42 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 29 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2991 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 67 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 71 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 214 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.4 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 44 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 44 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 49 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1327 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4309 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2179 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2933 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1569 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 21670 | Morohashi |
| 3497 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3715 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1555 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1675 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 9 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 43 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2472 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a5.29 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-5-2 | SKIP code |
| 2510.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-32-24 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 751f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
161 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 産 【サン】 (giving) birth, childbirth, delivery, native (of), product of, produced in, -grown, -bred, assets, property, fortune
- 産科 【サンカ】 obstetrics
- 増産 【ゾウサン】 production increase
- 水産 【スイサン】 aquatic products, fisheries
Kun reading compounds
- 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)
- 産霊 【むすひ】 divine spirit of creation
Readings
- Japanese names:
- もと
- Korean:
- san
Spanish
- producto
- producir
- propiedad
- dar a luz
- nacer
Portuguese
- produtos
- dar a luz
- nascer
- dar crias
- nascimento
- nativo
- bens
French
- production
- porter (fruits)
- donner naissance
- produire
- natal
- propriété
| 408 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 518 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 491 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 142 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3354 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 317 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 218 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1520 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 278 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 278 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 574 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1328 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4089 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2075 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2812 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1574 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 21684P | Morohashi |
| 3298 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3716 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1560 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1681 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 92 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 567 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 472 | 2001 Kanji |
| 5b6.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-6-5 | SKIP code |
| 2-4-7 | SKIP code |
| 2-2-9 | SKIP code |
| 0021.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-26 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7523 | Unicode hex code |