Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
Variants:
wretched, disaster, cruelty, harsh
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1463 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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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

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
can3, can4
Korean:
cham, chim

Spanish

  • cruel
  • horrible
  • desastroso

Portuguese

  • desprezível
  • desastre
  • crueldade
  • severo

French

  • choquant
  • misérable
  • désastre
  • cruauté
  • rude
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)
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

6 strokes
Radical:
death, decay 歹 (歺)
Parts:
death, die
Kun:
し.ぬし.に-
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 死 【シ】 death, (an) out, death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
  • 死因 【シイン】 cause of death
  • 安楽死 【アンラクシ】 euthanasia
  • 病死 【ビョウシ】 death from disease, death from illness

Kun reading compounds

  • 死ぬ 【しぬ】 to die, to pass away, to lose spirit, to lose vigor, to look dead, to cease, to stop
  • 死ぬ気で 【しぬきで】 all out, like hell, like crazy, desperately, expecting to die

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si3
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • muerte
  • morir

Portuguese

  • morte
  • dados

French

  • mort
  • mourir
223 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
302 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
286 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
254 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2439 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
207 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
205 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.5 Japanese for Busy People
85 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
85 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
258 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1133 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4334 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2194 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2952 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
823 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16365 Morohashi
3521 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2968 New Nelson (John Haig)
815 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
878 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
238 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
267 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3256 2001 Kanji
0a6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-1 SKIP code
1021.1 Four corner code
1021.2 Four corner code
1-27-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b7b Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
body, substance, object, reality, counter for images
Kun:
からだかたち
On:
タイテイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
88 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 体 【タイ】 body, physique, posture, shape, form, style, substance, identity, reality, field, counter for humanoid forms (e.g. dolls, statues, corpses, etc.), typeface, type
  • 体育 【タイイク】 physical education, PE, gym (class)
  • 生体 【セイタイ】 organism, living body
  • 解体 【カイタイ】 demolition, taking down, dismantling, disassembly, taking apart, dissolution (of an organization, company, etc.), breaking up, dissection (of a body), dismemberment
  • 体 【テイ】 appearance, air, condition, state, form
  • 体裁 【テイサイ】 (outward) appearance, (proper) format (e.g. of an essay), form, style, appearances, decency, show, display, lip-service, insincere words, glib talk
  • 身体 【シンタイ】 body, physical system, (the) person
  • 風体 【フウテイ】 appearance, look, dress

Kun reading compounds

  • 体 【からだ】 body, torso, trunk, build, physique, frame, figure, health, constitution, corpse, dead body
  • 体つき 【からだつき】 body build, figure
  • お体 【おからだ】 body
  • 御体 【おんからだ】 body of Christ (Eucharist)
  • 形体 【なりかたち】 one's appearance

Readings

Japanese names:
なり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ti3, ben4
Korean:
che

Spanish

  • cuerpo
  • forma

Portuguese

  • corpo
  • substância
  • objeto
  • realidade
  • sufixo para contagem de para imagens

French

  • corps
  • substance
  • objet
  • réalité
  • compteur d'images
270 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
182 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
165 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
110 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
405 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
176 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
115 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
358 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
61 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
61 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
165 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
80 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
80 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
52 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
55 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
966 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
509 Morohashi
71 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
165 New Nelson (John Haig)
957 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1030 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
96 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
149 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2155 2001 Kanji
2a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
2523.0 Four corner code
1-34-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f53 Unicode hex code