Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
Variants:
lazy, laziness
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2336 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 惰性 【ダセイ】 force of habit, inertia
  • 惰気 【ダキ】 indolence, listlessness
  • 懶惰 【ランダ】 indolence, laziness, sloth, idleness
  • 遊惰 【ユウダ】 indolence

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
duo4
Korean:
ta

Spanish

  • pereza
  • descuido
  • vaguear
  • descuidar

Portuguese

  • preguiçoso
  • ociosidade

French

  • paresse
1540 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1978 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1727 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1714 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1305 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1743 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1866 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1460 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
823 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
706 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
424 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
531 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
636 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10855 Morohashi
579 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1921 New Nelson (John Haig)
629 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
676 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1534 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1146 2001 Kanji
4k9.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
9402.7 Four corner code
1-34-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
60f0 Unicode hex code

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

Speed

Stroke order

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