Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
genius, years old, cubic shaku
On:
サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
1497 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 才 【サイ】 ability, gift, talent, aptitude, genius, sai, traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
  • 歳 【サイ】 ... years old, age (of) ...
  • 鬼才 【キサイ】 wizard, genius, remarkable talent, exceptional ability
  • 英才 【エイサイ】 genius, brilliance, unusual talent, gifted person, person of unusual talent

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cai2
Korean:
jae

Spanish

  • talento
  • capacidad
  • habilidad
  • años de edad

Portuguese

  • gênio
  • anos antigos

French

  • génie
  • "(x) ans" (âge)
  • shaku cubique (18,04 ml)
217 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
139 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
126 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
639 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
270 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
574 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
553 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
35 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
551 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
560 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
739 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
853 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4218 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2131 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2880 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
688 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11769 Morohashi
3410 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2059 New Nelson (John Haig)
681 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
736 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
85 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1447 2001 Kanji
0a3.27 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-3 SKIP code
5000.0 Four corner code
4020.0 Four corner code
1-26-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
624d Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:
beautiful woman, princess
Kun:
ひめ
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1735 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 才媛 【サイエン】 literary woman, talented woman

Kun reading compounds

  • 姫 【ひめ】 young lady of noble birth, princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.), girl, small, cute, lesser (in names of species), prostitute
  • 愛媛 【えひめ】 Ehime (prefecture)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan4, yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • mujer bella
  • princesa

Portuguese

French

  • belle femme
  • princesse
1828 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1238 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1868 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2047 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1883 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
688 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
413 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
519 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1969 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6516X Morohashi
1244 New Nelson (John Haig)
1950 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2100 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3e9.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
4244.7 Four corner code
1-41-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5a9b Unicode hex code