Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
legs
Parts:
excuse, dismissal
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1080 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 免 【メン】 dismissal, discharge
  • 免疫 【メンエキ】 immunity, immunization, immunisation, being hardened (to), being unaffected (by), being accustomed (to)
  • 任免 【ニンメン】 appointments and dismissal
  • 懲戒免 【チョウカイメン】 disciplinary dismissal, disciplinary discharge

Kun reading compounds

  • 免れる 【まぬがれる】 to escape (disaster, death, etc.), to be saved from, to be rescued from, to avoid (e.g. punishment), to evade (e.g. responsibility), to avert, to elude, to be exempted from
  • 免れる 【まぬがれる】 to escape (disaster, death, etc.), to be saved from, to be rescued from, to avoid (e.g. punishment), to evade (e.g. responsibility), to avert, to elude, to be exempted from

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mian3, wen4
Korean:
myeon, mun

Spanish

  • excusa
  • permiso
  • abandono
  • escape
  • despido
  • evitar
  • escapar
  • permitir
  • abandonar
  • ser despedido

Portuguese

  • Desculpar
  • demissão

French

  • excuser
  • licenciement
1849 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1084 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
573 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
931 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1076 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
762 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
733 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
746 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
941 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
149 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2565 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1309 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1779 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1991 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1358 Morohashi
2067 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
361 New Nelson (John Haig)
1972 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2126 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1153 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2557 2001 Kanji
2n6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
2-6-2 SKIP code
2741.6 Four corner code
1-44-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
514d Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
sickness
Parts:
epidemic
On:
エキヤク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1661 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 疫病 【エキビョウ】 epidemic, plague, pestilence
  • 疫学 【エキガク】 epidemiology
  • 検疫 【ケンエキ】 quarantine, medical inspection
  • 防疫 【ボウエキ】 communicable disease control (e.g. by quarantine, disinfection, etc.), prevention of epidemics
  • 疫病 【エキビョウ】 epidemic, plague, pestilence
  • 疫神 【エキジン】 god who spreads infectious diseases, god of pestilence

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
yeog

Spanish

  • epidemia

Portuguese

  • epidemia

French

  • épidémie
1019 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1834 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3028 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1469 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1543 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1319 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1401 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1735 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1348 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4061 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2058 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2790 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1705 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22069 Morohashi
3276 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3783 New Nelson (John Haig)
1689 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1824 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1283 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
568 2001 Kanji
5i4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-5-4 SKIP code
0014.7 Four corner code
1-17-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
75ab Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
shell
Parts:
levy, ode, prose, poem, tribute, installment
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 賦 【フ】 poem, narrative (style of the Shi Jing), classical Chinese rhymed prose
  • 賦課 【フカ】 levy, imposition
  • 配賦 【ハイフ】 allocation, apportionment, distribution
  • 貢賦 【コウフ】 tribute and taxation
  • 賦役 【フエキ】 slave labour, slave labor, compulsory service, forced labour, forced labor, exacted service
  • 賦払い 【ブバライ】 payment on an installment system, payment on an instalment system, easy payment plan

Readings

Japanese names:
うた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu4
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • arancel
  • tributo
  • asignación

Portuguese

  • ode
  • prosa
  • poema
  • tributo
  • prestações
  • tributar

French

  • prélèvement
  • tribut
  • impôt
  • versements
  • ode
  • poème
  • prose poétique
1758 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1253 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4513 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1635 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1786 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1808 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1947 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1585 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1748 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1992 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1064 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1432 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
384 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36800X Morohashi
1583 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5811 New Nelson (John Haig)
378 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
404 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1804 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3956 2001 Kanji
7b8.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-8 SKIP code
1-7-7 SKIP code
6384.0 Four corner code
1-41-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ce6 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
lively, resuscitation, being helped, living
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
171 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 活 【カツ】 living, life, judo art of resuscitation, action, activity
  • 活字 【カツジ】 printing type, movable type, printed text, print
  • 死活 【シカツ】 life and death, life or death
  • 就活 【シュウカツ】 job hunting, job searching

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

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huo2
Korean:
hwal, gwal

Spanish

  • vida
  • energía
  • actividad

Portuguese

  • vivo
  • resuscitação
  • existência
  • ser ajudado
  • vida

French

  • vivant
  • animé
  • résurrection
  • être aidé
174 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
99 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
244 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
203 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2552 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
198 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
681 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
819 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.10 Japanese for Busy People
237 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
517 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1185 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
460 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
285 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
345 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
145 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17423 Morohashi
385 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3132 New Nelson (John Haig)
143 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
154 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
132 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
172 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
377 2001 Kanji
3a6.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
3216.4 Four corner code
1-19-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d3b Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:
Variants:
dose, medicine, drug
Kun:
かるけず.る
On:
ザイスイセイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1151 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 剤 【ザイ】 medicine, agent, (chemical) substance, drug, dose
  • 剤形 【ザイケイ】 dosage form
  • 薬剤 【ヤクザイ】 medicine, drug, chemical
  • 覚醒剤 【カクセイザイ】 stimulant (e.g. psychoactive drugs like methamphetamine, ritalin, etc.)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji4
Korean:
je, ja

Spanish

  • medicina
  • droga

Portuguese

  • dose
  • remédio
  • droga

French

  • dose
  • médicament
  • drogue
  • produit pour...
1296 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
949 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5424 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1497 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1096 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
550 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
559 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1780 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
200 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2102 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1094 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1491 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1746 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2076P Morohashi
1669 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
493 New Nelson (John Haig)
1730 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1867 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1312 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
443 2001 Kanji
2f8.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-2 SKIP code
0220.0 Four corner code
1-26-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5264 Unicode hex code