Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
right hand
Parts:
Variants:
confer, relate, narrate, describe
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1954 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 叙情 【ジョジョウ】 lyricism, description of one's feelings
  • 叙勲 【ジョクン】 conferring of decorations
  • 倒叙 【トウジョ】 reverse chronological order
  • 昇叙 【ショウジョ】 promotion, advancement

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu4
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • relato
  • narración
  • descripción

Portuguese

  • confira
  • relaciona
  • narra
  • descreve

French

  • conférer
  • relater
  • raconter
  • décrire
1384 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1574 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
862 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1476 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1122 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
893 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1067 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1114 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1617 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
272 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1834 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
970 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1314 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1676 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3163 Morohashi
1446 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
681 New Nelson (John Haig)
1660 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1789 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1238 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2867 2001 Kanji
2h7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-2 SKIP code
8794.0 Four corner code
1-29-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53d9 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
responsibility, duty, term, entrust to, appoint
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
217 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 任 【ニン】 obligation, duty, charge, responsibility
  • 任意 【ニンイ】 optional, voluntary, arbitrary, random, discretionary, facultative, spontaneous, any, arbitrary
  • 再任 【サイニン】 reappointment
  • 在任 【ザイニン】 being in office

Kun reading compounds

  • 任せる 【まかせる】 to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone), to entrust (to someone), to entrust (someone) with, to leave (to chance, one's imagination, etc.), to let (take its own course), to let (happen), to give (oneself to something), to use (money, strength, spare time, etc.) to the full, to use freely, to use without reserve
  • 任す 【まかす】 to entrust (to someone), to leave (in someone's hands)

Readings

Japanese names:
さ、 とう、 ひで
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ren4, ren2
Korean:
im

Spanish

  • responsabilidad
  • deber
  • confiar a
  • dejar a cargo de

Portuguese

  • responsabilidade
  • dever
  • termo
  • confiar para
  • nomear

French

  • responsabilité
  • devoir
  • terme
  • confier à
  • nommer
688 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
785 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
764 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
310 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
374 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
414 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
307 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
235 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
334 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
334 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
639 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
69 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
57 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
37 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
38 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1012 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
416 Morohashi
53 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
136 New Nelson (John Haig)
1003 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1078 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
349 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
662 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2172 2001 Kanji
2a4.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-4 SKIP code
2221.4 Four corner code
1-39-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4efb Unicode hex code