Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
mourning, abhor, detestable, death anniversary
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1882 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 忌 【キ】 mourning, mourning period, anniversary of one's death
  • 忌避 【キヒ】 evasion, avoidance, shirking, recusation (of a judge), taking exception (to a judge), challenge
  • 回忌 【カイキ】 death anniversary, anniversary of a person's death
  • 七回忌 【シチカイキ】 sixth anniversary of a death

Kun reading compounds

  • 忌む 【いむ】 to avoid, to refrain from, to shun, to detest
  • 忌むべき 【いむべき】 abominable, detestable
  • 忌み 【いみ】 mourning, abstinence, taboo, religious purification, pure, holy
  • 忌み明け 【いみあけ】 end of mourning
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 物忌み 【ものいみ】 purification through fasting and abstinence, confinement to one's house on inauspicious days to avoid misfortune (Onmyōdō practice)
  • 忌まわしい 【いまわしい】 abhorrent, abominable, detestable, disgusting, horrid, repugnant, ominous, inauspicious, unlucky

Readings

Japanese names:
いまわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji4
Korean:
gi

Spanish

  • aborrecer
  • detestar
  • luto

Portuguese

  • luto
  • odiar
  • detestável
  • aniversário de morte

French

  • deuil
  • détester
  • répugnant
  • anniversaire du décès
1122 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1819 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1463 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1522 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1287 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
462 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1797 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1935 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1697 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
769 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2735 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1889 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
606 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10310 Morohashi
2207 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1786 New Nelson (John Haig)
599 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
644 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1121 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3558 2001 Kanji
4k3.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
1733.1 Four corner code
1-20-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5fcc Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
bow
Parts:
pull, tug, jerk, admit, install, quote, refer to
Kun:
ひ.くひ.ける
On:
イン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
218 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 引退 【インタイ】 retirement
  • 引責 【インセキ】 taking responsibility
  • 誘引 【ユウイン】 enticement, inducement, attraction
  • 吸引 【キュウイン】 absorption, suction, aspiration, attraction, draw

Kun reading compounds

  • 引く 【ひく】 to pull, to tug, to lead (e.g. a horse), to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.), to attract (e.g. interest), to draw back (e.g. one's hand), to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.), to pull in, to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.), to draw (a line, plan, etc.), to catch (a cold), to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument), to look up (in a dictionary, phone book, etc.), to consult, to check, to haul, to pull (vehicles), to subtract, to deduct, to recede, to ebb, to fade, to be descend from, to inherit (a characteristic), to quote, to cite, to raise (as evidence), to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.), to install (e.g. a telephone), to supply (e.g. water), to hold (e.g. a note), to apply (e.g. lipstick), to oil (e.g. a pan), to wax (e.g. a floor), to move back, to draw back, to recede, to fall back, to retreat, to lessen, to subside, to ebb, to go down (e.g. of swelling), to resign, to retire, to quit
  • 引く手 【ひくて】 admirer, inducer
  • 引ける 【ひける】 to close, to be over, to break up (e.g. school), to lose one's nerve, to feel daunted

Readings

Japanese names:
いな、 ひき、 ひけ、 びき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin3
Korean:
in

Spanish

  • tirar
  • remolcar
  • retroceder
  • ser guiado
  • arrastrar
  • tocar (instrumento de cuerda)

Portuguese

  • puxar
  • rebocar
  • sacudir
  • permitir
  • instalar
  • citação
  • referir-se

French

  • tirer
  • admettre
  • installer
  • citation
  • référence
  • jouer (musique)
  • attraper (froid)
156 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
81 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
77 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
238 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1562 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
271 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
167 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
144 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.2 Japanese for Busy People
216 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
216 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
257 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
605 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
207 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
160 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1240 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9699 Morohashi
181 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1681 New Nelson (John Haig)
1232 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1318 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
263 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
87 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3554 2001 Kanji
3h1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-1 SKIP code
1220.0 Four corner code
1-16-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5f15 Unicode hex code