225 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
304 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
288 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
465 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1208 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
545 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
155 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
1092 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.16 | Japanese for Busy People |
494 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
503 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
129 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
439 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
335 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
211 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
252 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
755 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
6166 | Morohashi |
281 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1203 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
747 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
809 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
321 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
299 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
244 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 始発 【シハツ】 first departure (of the day), first train, first bus, departing one's home station (of a train, bus, etc.)
- 始業 【シギョウ】 start of work, commencement, opening
- 年始 【ネンシ】 beginning of the year, new year, New Year's call, New Year's greetings
- 創始 【ソウシ】 creation, founding, initiating
Kun reading compounds
- 始める 【はじめる】 to start, to begin, to commence, to initiate, to originate, to start up (a business, society, etc.), to open (e.g. a store), to establish, to start ..., to begin to ...
- 始まる 【はじまる】 to begin, to start, to commence, to happen (again), to begin (anew), to date (from), to originate (in)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- もと
- Korean:
- si
Spanish
- comenzar
- empezar
- empezar (trans.)
- empezar (intrans.)
Portuguese
- iniciar
- começar
French
- commencer
- débuter
1777 | 2001 Kanji |
3e5.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-3-5 | SKIP code |
4346.0 | Four corner code |
1-27-47 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
59cb | Unicode hex code |