Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
open country
Parts:
again, twice, second time
Kun:
ふたた.び
On:
サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
275 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 再 【サイ】 re-, again, repeated, deutero-, deuto-, deuter-
  • 再演 【サイエン】 another showing (of a play), playing the same role again (i.e. of an actor), recapitulation
  • 一再 【イッサイ】 once or twice, repeatedly
  • 再 【サイ】 re-, again, repeated, deutero-, deuto-, deuter-
  • 再演 【サイエン】 another showing (of a play), playing the same role again (i.e. of an actor), recapitulation

Kun reading compounds

  • 再び 【ふたたび】 again, once more, a second time
  • 再び取る 【ふたたびとる】 to reassume

Readings

Japanese names:
ふた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zai4
Korean:
jae

Spanish

  • de nuevo
  • otra vez
  • re-
  • repetidamente

Portuguese

  • outra vez
  • duas vezes
  • segundo tempo

French

  • encore une fois
  • deux fois
  • une deuxième fois
788 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
706 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
679 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
360 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
35 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
543 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
347 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
782 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
796 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
992 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
162 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4332 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2192 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2950 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1832 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1524 Morohashi
3519 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
391 New Nelson (John Haig)
1815 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1956 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
252 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
658 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3147 2001 Kanji
0a6.26 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-1 SKIP code
1055.7 Four corner code
1044.7 Four corner code
1-26-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
518d Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
read
Kun:
よ.む-よ.み
On:
ドクトクトウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du2, dou4
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