Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广
bed, counter for beds, floor, padding, tatami
Kun:
とこゆか
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1175 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 床 【ショウ】 counter for beds
  • 床几 【ショウギ】 camp stool, folding stool
  • 臨床 【リンショウ】 clinical (e.g. pathology, physiology)
  • 温床 【オンショウ】 hotbed, breeding ground

Kun reading compounds

  • 床 【とこ】 bed, bedding, sickbed, alcove, riverbed, seedbed, straw "core" of a tatami mat, floor
  • 床の間 【とこのま】 tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)
  • 鋏 【やっとこ】 pincers, nippers, pliers
  • 金床 【かなとこ】 anvil
  • 床 【ゆか】 floor, stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player), dining platform built across a river
  • 床下 【ゆかした】 under the floor
  • 河床 【かしょう】 riverbed, raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer
  • 納涼床 【のうりょうゆか】 raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the summer cool

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuang2
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • suelo
  • cama
  • alcoba
  • peluquería

Portuguese

  • cama
  • andar
  • estofamento
  • tatami

French

  • plancher
  • lit
  • rembourrage
  • tatami
  • compteur de lits
1389 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1240 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1503 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
959 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
507 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
508 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
826 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
845 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
543 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
584 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3805 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1947 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2641 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
599 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9242 Morohashi
3067 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1608 New Nelson (John Haig)
592 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
636 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1135 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
564 2001 Kanji
3q4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-4 SKIP code
0029.4 Four corner code
1-30-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e8a Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
armpit, the other way, another place, flank, supporting role
Kun:
わきわけ
On:
キョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1806 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 脇侍 【ワキジ】 flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
  • 脇息 【キョウソク】 armrest

Kun reading compounds

  • 脇 【わき】 armpit, under one's arm, side, flank, beside, close to, near, by, aside, to the side, away, out of the way, off-track, off-topic, deuteragonist, supporting role, second verse (in a linked series of poems)
  • 脇見 【わきみ】 looking from the side, looking aside
  • 床脇 【とこわき】 section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)
  • 口脇 【くちわき】 edges of the mouth
  • 関脇 【せきわけ】 wrestler of the third highest rank

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie2
Korean:
hyeob

Spanish

  • axila
  • sobaco
  • flanco
  • lado
  • lateral

Portuguese

French

  • flanc
  • aisselle
  • de côté (regard)
  • ailleurs (regard)
  • second rôle
1583 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3765 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1083 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1336 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1188 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
859 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
879 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29467 Morohashi
952 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4807 New Nelson (John Haig)
870 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
935 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
7422.7 Four corner code
1-47-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8107 Unicode hex code