Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
bungling, clumsy, unskillful
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1938 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 拙 【セツ】 poor, unskillful, clumsy, I, me
  • 拙劣 【セツレツ】 clumsy, unskillful
  • 稚拙 【チセツ】 unskillful, childish, immature, naive, artless, clumsy, crude
  • 巧拙 【コウセツ】 skill, workmanship, dexterity, quality

Kun reading compounds

  • 拙い 【つたない】 poor-quality, shoddy, crude, unskillful, inexpert, maladroit, inept, foolish, clumsy, unlucky

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhuo2, zhuo1
Korean:
jol

Spanish

  • inexperto
  • torpe

Portuguese

  • Mal-ajambrado
  • desajeitado
  • inábil

French

  • maladroit
  • bâclé
  • mon humble (maison, écrit)
1487 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1785 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1880 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1733 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1351 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1801 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1939 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1470 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
875 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
373 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
235 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
280 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
776 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11965 Morohashi
315 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2122 New Nelson (John Haig)
769 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
831 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1180 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1376 2001 Kanji
3c5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
5207.2 Four corner code
1-32-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62d9 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
translate, reason, circumstance, case
Kun:
わけ
On:
ヤク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1050 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 訳 【ヤク】 translation, version (e.g. "English version")
  • 訳者 【ヤクシャ】 translator
  • 点訳 【テンヤク】 translating into Braille
  • 名訳 【メイヤク】 excellent translation, fine translation

Kun reading compounds

  • 訳 【わけ】 conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard, reason, cause, meaning, circumstances, situation
  • 訳がない 【わけがない】 there is no way that ..., easy, simple
  • 申し訳 【もうしわけ】 apology, excuse
  • 仕分け 【しわけ】 classification, sorting (out), grouping, assortment, assortment journalizing (in bookkeeping)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
yeog

Spanish

  • traducir
  • razón
  • motivo
  • causa
  • significado

Portuguese

  • traduzir
  • razão
  • circunstância
  • caso

French

  • traduire
  • excuse
  • cause
  • circonstance
  • cas
874 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
993 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
982 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
879 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4327 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
190 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1743 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1402 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
594 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
604 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
761 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1668 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1865 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
989 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1340 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1082 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35324P Morohashi
1473 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5572 New Nelson (John Haig)
1073 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1154 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
934 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3062 2001 Kanji
7a4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
0768.7 Four corner code
1-44-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a33 Unicode hex code