Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
seasons
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
842 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 季 【キ】 season (in nature, sports, etc.), seasonal word or phrase (in haiku), year
  • 季刊 【キカン】 quarterly publication
  • 夏季 【カキ】 summer season
  • 秋季 【シュウキ】 fall season, autumn season

Readings

Japanese names:
すえ、 とし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji4
Korean:
gye

Spanish

  • estación del año

Portuguese

  • estações

French

  • saison
369 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
471 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
448 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
871 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3266 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
641 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
456 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
725 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
465 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
473 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
698 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
461 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3161 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1624 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2210 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
921 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6965 Morohashi
2554 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1292 New Nelson (John Haig)
912 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
978 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
499 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2247 2001 Kanji
5d2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-3 SKIP code
2-5-2 SKIP code
2040.7 Four corner code
1-21-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b63 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
word, speech, language
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
301 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 語 【ゴ】 word, language, speech
  • 語学 【ゴガク】 study of foreign languages, linguistics
  • 標語 【ヒョウゴ】 motto, slogan, catchword
  • 造語 【ゾウゴ】 coinage, invention of a new word, coined word

Kun reading compounds

  • 語る 【かたる】 to talk about, to speak of, to tell, to narrate, to recite, to chant, to indicate, to show
  • 語るに落ちる 【かたるにおちる】 to let slip a secret, to let the cat out of the bag
  • 語らう 【かたらう】 to talk, to tell, to recite, to pledge, to conspire with

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu3, yu4
Korean:
eo

Spanish

  • palabra
  • discurso
  • lenguaje
  • hablar
  • conversar
  • narrar

Portuguese

  • palavra
  • discurso
  • língua

French

  • langage
  • mot
  • raconter
209 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
124 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
112 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
274 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4374 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
231 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
87 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2136 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
67 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
67 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
154 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1685 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1944 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1040 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1402 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
353 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35533 Morohashi
1543 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5628 New Nelson (John Haig)
347 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
371 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
211 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
231 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0166.1 Four corner code
1-24-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a9e Unicode hex code