| 1309 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1470 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1713 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1304 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1304 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1725 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1843 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1457 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 818 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 585 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 354 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 441 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1737 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 10850 | Morohashi |
| 483 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1896 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1721 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1857 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1433 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1463 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 惨 【サン】 appalling
- 惨事 【サンジ】 disaster, tragedy, tragic incident, horrible accident
- 凄惨 【セイサン】 ghastly, gruesome, appalling, lurid
- 陰惨 【インサン】 sadness and gloom
- 残虐 【ザンギャク】 cruel, brutal, savage, barbarous
- 残酷 【ザンコク】 cruel, brutal, ruthless, merciless, inhuman
- 冷酷無惨 【レイコクムザン】 cruel and heartless, merciless, implacable, cold-blooded
Kun reading compounds
- 惨め 【みじめ】 miserable, wretched, unhappy, sad, pitiable
- 惨い 【むごい】 cruel, merciless, pitiless, brutal, atrocious, inhuman, tragic, horrible, terrible, dreadful, miserable, ugly, horrifying
Readings
- Korean:
- cham, chim
Spanish
- cruel
- horrible
- desastroso
Portuguese
- desprezível
- desastre
- crueldade
- severo
French
- choquant
- misérable
- désastre
- cruauté
- rude
| 1160 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4k8.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 9302.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-20 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 60e8 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
- 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
- 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
- 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency
Kun reading compounds
- 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
- 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
- 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
- いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
- 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ろ
- Korean:
- sa
Spanish
- cosa
- hecho
- asunto
- acción
Portuguese
- matéria
- coisa
- fato
- negócios
- razão
- possivelmente
French
- fait
- chose
- matière
- affaire
- raison
- peut-être
| 230 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 309 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 293 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 32 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 272 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 73 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 108 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 768 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.7 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 80 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 80 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 237 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 30 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4384 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2220 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2986 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1164 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 241 | Morohashi |
| 3567 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 71 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1156 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1240 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 10 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 300 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1547 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a8.15 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-8-3 | SKIP code |
| 5000.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-86 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 4e8b | Unicode hex code |