Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
sex, gender, nature
Kun:
さが
On:
セイショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
104 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 性 【セイ】 nature (of a person), sex, gender, sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.), gender, -ty, -ity, -ness, -cy
  • 性格 【セイカク】 character (of a person), personality, disposition, nature, characteristics, nature (of a thing, event, etc.)
  • 耐性 【タイセイ】 resistance (e.g. to antibiotics), tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
  • 社会性 【シャカイセイ】 sociality
  • 性 【ショウ】 nature, disposition, temperament, character, quality, that which does not change according to external influences
  • 性根 【ショウネ】 nature, character, disposition
  • 冷え性 【ヒエショウ】 sensitivity to cold
  • 凝り性 【コリショウ】 tendency to become totally absorbed in something, monomania, perfectionism, fastidiousness, meticulousness, susceptibility for a stiffening of the shoulders

Kun reading compounds

  • 性 【さが】 one's nature, one's destiny, custom, tradition, habit, convention

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xing4
Korean:
seong

Spanish

  • sexo
  • género
  • naturaleza
  • temperamento

Portuguese

  • sexo
  • gênero
  • natureza

French

  • sexe
  • genre
  • nature
  • propriétés
645 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
745 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
723 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
199 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1666 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
280 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
535 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
564 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.13 Japanese for Busy People
98 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
98 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
421 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
811 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
357 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
222 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
266 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1572 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10478 Morohashi
299 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1822 New Nelson (John Haig)
1558 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1679 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
119 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
690 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1172 2001 Kanji
4k5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
1-1-7 SKIP code
9501.0 Four corner code
1-32-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6027 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:

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  • 淘汰 【トウタ】 weeding out, elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees), culling, selection, selection
  • 淘汰作用 【トウタサヨウ】 sifting out, weeding out, selection, sorting

Kun reading compounds

  • 淘げる 【よなげる】 to separate and discard, to sieve and sort, to wash out (impurities, etc.)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tao2
Korean:
do

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2588 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
17642 Morohashi
3187 New Nelson (John Haig)
3a8.34 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-37-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6dd8 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
washing, sieving, filtering, weeding out, luxury
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1

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On reading compounds

  • 自然淘汰 【シゼントウタ】 natural selection
  • 淘汰 【トウタ】 weeding out, elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees), culling, selection, selection

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tai4
Korean:
tae

Spanish

  • clasificar
  • seleccionar

Portuguese

French

2496 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2136 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1206 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
312 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
200 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
237 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
17160 Morohashi
3055 New Nelson (John Haig)
2316 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
149 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3a4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
3413.0 Four corner code
1-34-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c70 Unicode hex code