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

Speed

Stroke order

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

17 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
reef, sunken rock
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1977 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 礁 【ショウ】 reef
  • 礁湖 【ショウコ】 barrier lagoon, coral-reef lagoon
  • 環礁 【カンショウ】 atoll, circular coral reef
  • 座礁 【ザショウ】 running aground, being stranded, grounding, beaching

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao1
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • arrecife
  • roca hundida
  • escollo

Portuguese

  • recife
  • rocha submersa

French

  • récif
  • écueil
1413 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1792 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3220 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1706 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1575 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1768 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1900 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1553 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1411 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1588 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
840 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1148 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
565 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24502 Morohashi
1243 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4048 New Nelson (John Haig)
558 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
600 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1878 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3340 2001 Kanji
5a12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-12 SKIP code
1063.1 Four corner code
1-30-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7901 Unicode hex code