Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
repress, well, now, in the first place, push, shove, press, seal, do in spite of
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
834 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 抑止 【ヨクシ】 check, checkmate, stave off, control, restraint, inhibit, deterrent, deterrence
  • 抑圧 【ヨクアツ】 check, restraint, oppression, suppression
  • 圧抑 【アツヨク】 check, restraint, oppression, suppression
  • 謙抑 【ケンヨク】 humbling oneself

Kun reading compounds

  • 抑える 【おさえる】 to keep within limits (e.g. spending), to restrain (e.g. emotions), to control, to curb, to hold in check, to hold back (e.g. an enemy), to check, to curb, to contain, to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to repress

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
eog

Spanish

  • freno
  • restricción
  • reprimir
  • restringir

Portuguese

  • reprimir
  • bem
  • agora
  • no primeiro lugar
  • empurrar
  • pressionar
  • imprenum
  • carimbo
  • fazer apesar de

French

  • répression
  • bon..!
  • maintenant
  • en premier lieu
  • pousser
  • presser
  • sceau
  • faire en dépit de
1884 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1399 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1851 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1318 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1339 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1057 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1100 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1264 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
867 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
301 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
193 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
229 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1716 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11883 Morohashi
257 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2090 New Nelson (John Haig)
1700 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1835 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1131 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1344 2001 Kanji
3c4.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
5702.0 Four corner code
1-45-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6291 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
Kun:
くさくさ--ぐさ
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
967 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 草 【ソウ】 draft, rough copy, highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters), grass style
  • 草案 【ソウアン】 draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
  • 除草 【ジョソウ】 weeding
  • 起草 【キソウ】 drafting (e.g. a bill), drawing up

Kun reading compounds

  • 草 【くさ】 grass, weed, herb, thatch, ninja, marijuana, cannabis, not genuine, substandard, LOL, haha
  • 草刈り 【くさかり】 mowing, mower
  • 水草 【みずくさ】 water plant, aquatic plant, waterweed, hydrophyte
  • 若草 【わかくさ】 green grass, young (fresh) grass

Readings

Japanese names:
そ、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao3
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • hierba
  • planta

Portuguese

  • grama
  • erva daninha
  • ervas
  • pasto
  • escrever
  • esboçar

French

  • herbe
  • mauvaise herbe
  • plantes
  • pâturage
  • écrire
  • ébauche
106 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
57 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
162 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
705 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3939 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
118 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
865 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
934 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
249 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
249 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
567 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
652 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2813 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1953 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
229 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30945P Morohashi
2263 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5032 New Nelson (John Haig)
224 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
238 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
77 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1955 2001 Kanji
3k6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4440.6 Four corner code
1-33-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8349 Unicode hex code