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, polite set phrase used when meeting or parting from someone, speech (congratulatory or appreciative), address, reply, response, courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.), 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

9 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 舞台挨拶 【ブタイアイサツ】 on-stage speech by the director and cast on the opening day of a movie or play
  • 年頭挨拶 【ネントウアイサツ】 New Year's greetings

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zan3, za1
Korean:
chal

Spanish

  • acercarse
  • ser inminente

Portuguese

French

1888 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1102 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
451 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
336 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12004 Morohashi
2134 New Nelson (John Haig)
2261 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
713 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1360 2001 Kanji
3c6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
5202.7 Four corner code
1-27-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62f6 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
word, speech, language
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
301 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 語 【ゴ】 word, term, language, speech
  • 語学 【ゴガク】 study of foreign languages, linguistics
  • 標語 【ヒョウゴ】 motto, slogan, catchword
  • 造語 【ゾウゴ】 coinage, invention of a new word, coined word

Kun reading compounds

  • 語る 【かたる】 to talk about, to speak of, to tell, to narrate, to recite, to chant, to indicate, to show
  • 語るに落ちる 【かたるにおちる】 to let slip a secret, to let the cat out of the bag
  • 語らう 【かたらう】 to talk, to tell, to recite, to pledge, to conspire with

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu3, yu4
Korean:
eo

Spanish

  • palabra
  • discurso
  • lenguaje
  • hablar
  • conversar
  • narrar

Portuguese

  • palavra
  • discurso
  • língua

French

  • langage
  • mot
  • raconter
209 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
124 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
112 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
274 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4374 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
231 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
87 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2136 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
67 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
67 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
154 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1685 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1944 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1040 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1402 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
353 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35533 Morohashi
1543 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5628 New Nelson (John Haig)
347 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
371 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
211 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
231 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0166.1 Four corner code
1-24-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a9e Unicode hex code