Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广
squat, seat, cushion, gathering, sit
Kun:
すわ.る
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
588 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 座 【ザ】 seat, place, position, status, gathering, party, company, atmosphere (of a gathering), stand, pedestal, platform, trade guild, attaches to the names of constellations, attaches to the names of theatres, cinemas and theatrical troupes, counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs
  • 座敷 【ザシキ】 tatami room, tatami mat room, formal Japanese room, dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)
  • 連座 【レンザ】 implication (in a crime), involvement, sitting in a row (in the same seat)
  • 同坐 【ドウザ】 sitting together, the same theater (theatre), involvement, entanglement, implication

Kun reading compounds

  • 座る 【すわる】 to sit, to squat, to assume (a position), to hold steady, to hold still

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zuo4
Korean:
jwa

Spanish

  • sitio
  • asiento
  • constelación
  • sentarse

Portuguese

  • agachar
  • assento
  • almofada
  • reunião
  • sentar

French

  • s'accroupir
  • s'asseoir
  • siège
  • coussin
  • rassemblement
  • théâtre
  • constellation
880 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
870 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
377 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1515 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1089 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
510 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1245 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
786 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
800 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
175 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
590 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3868 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1989 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2686 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1033 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9319 Morohashi
3116 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1619 New Nelson (John Haig)
1024 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1100 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
900 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
572 2001 Kanji
3q7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
0021.4 Four corner code
1-26-34 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ea7 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
rap 攴 (攵)
Parts:
Variants:
spread, pave, sit, promulgate
Kun:
し.く-し.き
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1212 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 敷設 【フセツ】 laying (a railroad, pipes, naval mines, etc.), construction
  • 敷衍 【フエン】 expatiation, enlargement (e.g. on a point), elaboration, amplification, clear explanation, paraphrasing

Kun reading compounds

  • 敷く 【しく】 to spread out, to lay out, to cover, to lay (e.g. railway tracks), to sit on, to take a position, to impose widely (e.g. over a city)

Readings

Japanese names:
しき、 にゅう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu1
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • extender
  • tender una vía
  • pavimentar

Portuguese

  • espalhar
  • pavimentar
  • assentar
  • promulgar

French

  • étaler
  • paver
  • s'asseoir
  • promulguer
1756 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1053 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2059 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1039 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1392 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2355 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1451 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1544 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
724 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
947 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2345 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1207 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1653 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1901 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13359P Morohashi
1870 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2357 New Nelson (John Haig)
1883 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2028 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1772 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1566 2001 Kanji
4i11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-4 SKIP code
5824.0 Four corner code
1-41-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6577 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
cow 牛 (牜)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 牢 【ロウ】 prison, jail, gaol, firm, solid, strong
  • 浪人 【ロウニン】 ronin, masterless samurai, high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination, person out of work, jobless person, wanderer, drifter
  • 永牢 【エイロウ】 life imprisonment
  • 入牢 【ニュウロウ】 imprisonment

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lao2
Korean:
roe, ro

Spanish

  • prisión
  • celda
  • dureza
  • duro

Portuguese

French

1287 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
19934 Morohashi
3535 New Nelson (John Haig)
2213 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2325 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3m4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
3050.2 Four corner code
1-47-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7262 Unicode hex code