Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
pity, be sparing of, frugal, stingy, regret
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1641 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 惜敗 【セキハイ】 regrettable defeat, defeat by a narrow margin
  • 惜春 【セキシュン】 lamenting the passing of spring, lamenting the passing of one's youth
  • 痛惜 【ツウセキ】 deep regret
  • 哀惜 【アイセキ】 grief, sorrow

Kun reading compounds

  • 惜しい 【おしい】 regrettable, disappointing, unfortunate, precious, dear, valuable, too good for, deserving better, almost (but not quite), close (but no cigar)
  • 惜しむ 【おしむ】 to be frugal, to be sparing, to value, to hold dear, to regret (e.g. a loss), to feel sorry (for), to be unwilling, to be reluctant
  • 惜しむべき 【おしむべき】 lamentable, regrettable

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1, xi2
Korean:
seog

Spanish

  • lastima
  • condolencia
  • pena
  • penoso
  • lamentable
  • condolerse
  • sentir
  • estimar

Portuguese

  • compaixão
  • poupar
  • frugal
  • mesquinho

French

  • regret
  • frugal
  • radin
  • économe
1484 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1542 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1712 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1024 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1303 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
765 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
779 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1455 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
820 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
586 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
355 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
442 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1195 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10814 Morohashi
484 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1894 New Nelson (John Haig)
1187 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1271 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1434 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1178 2001 Kanji
4k8.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
9406.1 Four corner code
1-32-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
60dc Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
springtime, spring (season)
Kun:
はる
On:
シュン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
579 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 春秋 【シュンジュウ】 spring and autumn, spring and fall, years, age, The Spring and Autumn Annals, The Chronicles of Lu, Chunqiu, Ch'un Ch'iu
  • 春季 【シュンキ】 spring season
  • 昨春 【サクシュン】 last spring, the spring of last year
  • 売春 【バイシュン】 prostitution

Kun reading compounds

  • 春 【はる】 spring, springtime, New Year, prime (of life), height (of one's prosperity), heyday, adolescence, puberty, sexuality, sexual desire
  • 春秋 【しゅんじゅう】 spring and autumn, spring and fall, years, age, The Spring and Autumn Annals, The Chronicles of Lu, Chunqiu, Ch'un Ch'iu
  • 小春 【こはる】 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November), late autumn, late fall
  • 毎春 【まいしゅん】 every spring

Readings

Japanese names:
あずま、 かす、 すの、 ひ、 わら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chun1
Korean:
chun

Spanish

  • primavera
  • comienzo del año
  • tiempos de juventud

Portuguese

  • primaveril
  • primavera (estação)

French

  • printemps
91 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
158 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
141 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
461 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2122 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
162 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
188 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
963 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
460 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
468 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
96 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
971 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3184 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1644 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2232 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1582 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13844 Morohashi
2576 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2453 New Nelson (John Haig)
1568 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1690 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
179 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1478 2001 Kanji
4c5.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
4-9-2 SKIP code
5060.3 Four corner code
1-29-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6625 Unicode hex code