| 475 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 576 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 549 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 791 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1508 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 590 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 508 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 992 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 562 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 571 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 745 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 585 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3827 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1961 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2656 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1850 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 9262 | Morohashi |
| 3084 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1612 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1833 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1975 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 510 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
867 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 底 【テイ】 base (logarithmic, exponential, number system), radix, base (triangle, cone, cylinder, etc.), type, kind, extent, degree
- 底辺 【テイヘン】 base (of a polygon), bottom (of the social scale), lower levels, lower classes, base (e.g. of support), foundation, basis
- 奥底 【オクソコ】 depths, deep place, bottom (of one's heart)
- 水底 【スイテイ】 sea or river bottom
Kun reading compounds
- 底 【そこ】 bottom, sole
- 底入れ 【そこいれ】 bottoming out (of prices)
- 水底 【すいてい】 sea or river bottom
- 奥底 【おくそこ】 depths, deep place, bottom (of one's heart)
Readings
- Korean:
- ji, jeo
Spanish
- fondo
- suelo
- parte más baja
- base
Portuguese
- único
- fundo
- profundidade
- preço baixo
- base
- espécie
- tipo
French
- partie basse
- fond
- semelle
- profondeur
- prix plancher
- base
- sorte
| 556 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3q5.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-3-5 | SKIP code |
| 0024.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-36-76 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5e95 | Unicode hex code |
生
life, genuine, birth
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生育 【セイイク】 birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding
- 回生 【カイセイ】 resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student
- 公衆衛生 【コウシュウエイセイ】 public health, public hygiene, sanitation
- 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
- 生家 【セイカ】 house where one was born, one's parents' house
- 殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal
- 死生 【シセイ】 life and death
Kun reading compounds
- 生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
- 生きる糧 【いきるかて】 source of vitality, life sustenance
- 生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
- 生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
- 生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
- 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
- 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
- 生う 【おう】 to grow (of plants), to spring up
- 生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
- 生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to let grow (e.g. weeds)
- 生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
- 生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up, uncoated metal
- 死に生き 【しにいき】 death and life, death or life, death
- 生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), raw, bareback, live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, blank (e.g. disk), unused, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory, cash, tipsiness
- 生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
- お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
- 現ナマ 【げんナマ】 cold cash, hard cash
- 生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
- 生す 【なす】 to have a child
- 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
- Korean:
- saeng
Spanish
- vida
- nacimiento
- vivir
- existir
- nacer
- dar a luz
- puro
- crudo
Portuguese
- vida
- genuína
- nascimento
French
- vie
- naissance
- authentique
- cru
| 34 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 44 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 42 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 29 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2991 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 67 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 71 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 214 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.4 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 44 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 44 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 49 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1327 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4309 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2179 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2933 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1569 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 21670 | Morohashi |
| 3497 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3715 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1555 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1675 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 9 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 43 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2472 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a5.29 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-5-2 | SKIP code |
| 2510.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-32-24 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 751f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
215 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 物 【ブツ】 stock, products, goods (esp. stolen), loot, spoils, stuff
- 物議 【ブツギ】 public discussion, public criticism, controversy
- 異物 【イブツ】 foreign substance, foreign body, foreign contamination, foreign material, strange object, unusual object, dead body, corpse, remains
- 遺物 【イブツ】 relic, remains, memento
- 財物 【ザイブツ】 property
- 幣物 【ヘイモツ】 Shinto offerings, present to a guest
Kun reading compounds
- 物 【もの】 thing, object, article, stuff, substance, one's things, possessions, property, belongings, things, something, anything, everything, nothing, quality, reason, the way of things, used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc., used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense), used to indicate a general tendency, used to indicate something that should happen, item classified as ..., item related to ..., work in the genre of ..., cause of ..., cause for ..., somehow, somewhat, for some reason, really, truly
- 物言い 【ものいい】 manner of speaking, verbal argument, objection, protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee), rumor, rumour
- 先物 【さきもの】 futures, futures contract
- 拾い物 【ひろいもの】 found article, thing picked up (e.g. in the street), (lucky) find, piece of good luck, windfall, bargain
Readings
- Korean:
- mul
Spanish
- cosa
- objeto
- materia
Portuguese
- coisa
- objeto
- matéria
French
- objet
- chose
- matière
| 313 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 410 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 387 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 126 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2857 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 74 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 214 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 611 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.13 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 79 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 79 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 321 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1290 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1084 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 587 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 777 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1059 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 19959 | Morohashi |
| 874 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3538 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1050 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1129 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 95 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 313 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2451 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4g4.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-4 | SKIP code |
| 2752.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-42-10 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7269 | Unicode hex code |