Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
discard, throw away, abandon, resign, reject, sacrifice
Kun:
す.てる
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1266 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 捨 【シャ】 equanimity, upeksa, upekkha
  • 捨象 【シャショウ】 abstraction
  • 取捨 【シュシャ】 adoption or rejection, selection, choice, option
  • 用捨 【ヨウシャ】 adoption or rejection, selection, choice, leniency, mercy, going easy (on someone)

Kun reading compounds

  • 捨てる 【すてる】 to throw away, to cast away, to dump, to discard, to abandon, to desert, to leave, to give up, to resign
  • 捨てる神あれば拾う神あり 【すてるかみあればひろうかみあり】 when one door is shut, another is open, the world is as kind as it is cruel, there are gods that will abandon you and there are gods that will pick you up

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
she3, she4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • descartar
  • tirar
  • arrojar
  • abandonar
  • limosna
  • donación

Portuguese

  • descarte
  • gastar
  • desembaraçar
  • pedir demissão
  • rejeitado
  • sacrifício

French

  • jeter
  • mettre au rebut
  • abandonner
  • démissionner
  • rejet
  • sacrifice
894 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
883 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1223 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1944 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1424 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
573 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1324 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1444 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1537 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
285 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
901 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
608 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
369 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
461 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
662 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12191P Morohashi
501 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2205 New Nelson (John Haig)
655 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
707 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
923 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1377 2001 Kanji
3c8.26 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
5806.1 Four corner code
1-28-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6368 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
body
Parts:
somebody, person, one's station in life
Kun:
On:
シン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
320 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 心身 【シンシン】 mind and body
  • 身障者 【シンショウシャ】 (physically) disabled person, person with a physical disability
  • 終身 【シュウシン】 lifelong, lifetime, for life, life
  • 等身 【トウシン】 body proportions

Kun reading compounds

  • 身 【み】 one's body, one's person, oneself, one's appearance, one's place (in society, etc.), one's position, main part, meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.), wood (as opposed to bark), blade (as opposed to its handle), container (as opposed to its lid)
  • 身動き 【みうごき】 movement (of one's body), moving about, stirring, acting freely, doing as one pleases
  • 肩身 【かたみ】 shoulders, body, honour, honor, prestige, face
  • 細身 【ほそみ】 narrow, thin (sized), slender

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shen1, juan1
Korean:
sin

Spanish

  • cuerpo
  • uno mismo
  • posición

Portuguese

  • alguém
  • pessoa
  • fase da vida

French

  • individu
  • personne
  • situation sociale
255 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
339 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
323 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
331 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4601 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
791 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
937 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
546 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
59 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
59 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
394 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1768 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4368 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2213 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2977 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1256 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38034 Morohashi
3553 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5928 New Nelson (John Haig)
1248 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1337 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
174 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
285 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
847 2001 Kanji
0a7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
4-7-4 SKIP code
2740.0 Four corner code
1-31-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8eab Unicode hex code