| 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 grade 6
JLPT level N1
2272 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
- 蚕業 【サンギョウ】 sericulture
- 養蚕 【ヨウサン】 sericulture, silkworm culture, silkworm raising
- 秋蚕 【シュウサン】 autumn silkworms, fall silkworms
Kun reading compounds
- 蚕 【かいこ】 silkworm (Bombyx mori)
- 蚕蛾 【かいこが】 silkworm moth, silk moth (Bombyx mori)
- 三眠蚕 【さんみんかいこ】 three-molt silkworm
- 蚕糞 【こくそ】 silkworm droppings
- 蚕玉 【こだま】 guardian deity of silkworms
- 三眠蚕 【さんみんかいこ】 three-molt silkworm
- 桑蚕 【くわこ】 wild silkworm moth (Bombyx mandarina)
Readings
- Korean:
- cheon, jam
Spanish
- gusano de seda
Portuguese
- bicho-da-seda
French
- ver à soie
| 617 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 885 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 688 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 2017 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 57 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 880 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1715 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1877 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 2042 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1866 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1606 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3107 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1589 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2170 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 529 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 32869 | Morohashi |
| 2457 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5290 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 523 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 562 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 901 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3171 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6d4.8 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-4-6 | SKIP code |
| 1013.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-29 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8695 | Unicode hex code |