Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
approach, draw near, push open
Kun:
ひら.く
On:
アイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2258 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 挨拶 【アイサツ】 greeting, greetings, salutation, salute, condolences, congratulations, speech (congratulatory or appreciative), address, reply, response, revenge, retaliation, a fine thing to say, dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment), relationship (between people), connection, intervention, mediation, mediator
  • 挨拶代わり 【アイサツガワリ】 substitute for a proper greeting (e.g. gift)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ai1, ai2
Korean:
ae

Spanish

  • empujar
  • acercarse

Portuguese

French

1910 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1101 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
510 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
383 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12082 Morohashi
2160 New Nelson (John Haig)
2248 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1310 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1363 2001 Kanji
3c7.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
5303.4 Four corner code
1-16-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6328 Unicode hex code