| 52 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 88 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 82 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 580 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 58 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 163 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 148 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1161 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 461 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 469 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 97 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 402 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2619 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1339 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1815 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 302 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 5720 | Morohashi |
| 2113 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1120 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 296 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 317 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 188 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
659 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 夏 【カ】 Xia dynasty (of China; c. 2070-1600 BCE; possibly mythological), Hsia dynasty
- 夏季 【カキ】 summer season
- 初夏 【ショカ】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
- 盛夏 【セイカ】 midsummer, height of summer
- 夏 【ゲ】 summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month)
- 夏至 【ゲシ】 summer solstice
- 一夏 【イチゲ】 one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat)
- 半夏 【ハンゲ】 crow dipper (Pinellia tuber), 11th day after the summer solstice, last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
Kun reading compounds
- 夏 【なつ】 summer
- 夏季 【かき】 summer season
- 初夏 【しょか】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
- 常夏 【とこなつ】 everlasting summer
Readings
- Korean:
- ha
Spanish
- verano
Portuguese
- verão
French
- été
| 3167 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4i7.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-2-8 | SKIP code |
| 2-7-3 | SKIP code |
| 1024.7 | Four corner code |
| 1040.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-18-38 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 590f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
1315 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 眠剤 【ミンザイ】 sleeping pills
- 冬眠 【トウミン】 hibernation, winter sleep, torpor
- 安眠 【アンミン】 sound sleep, good sleep, quiet sleep
Kun reading compounds
- 眠る 【ねむる】 to sleep, to die, to rest (in peace), to lie (buried), to sleep (in the grave), to lie idle (e.g. of resources), to lie unused, to lie untapped, to lie untouched, to close one's eyes
- 眠い 【ねむい】 sleepy, drowsy, somnolent
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ね
- Korean:
- myeon
Spanish
- somnoliento
- tener sueño
- sonmoliento
- dormir
Portuguese
- sono
- morrer
- sonolento
French
- dormir
- somnolent
- mourir
| 1842 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1298 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3132 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1144 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 762 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1376 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3.17 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 849 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 868 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 978 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1386 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1474 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 782 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1061 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1852 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 23240 | Morohashi |
| 1147 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3925 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1835 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1977 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1371 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3956 | 2001 Kanji |
| 5c5.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-5-5 | SKIP code |
| 6704.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-44-18 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7720 | Unicode hex code |