Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
squeeze
Kun:
しぼ.る
On:
サク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2046 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 搾取 【サクシュ】 exploitation, bleeding dry, squeezing dry, milking (e.g. a cow's teat), extracting (a liquid) through squeezing
  • 搾乳 【サクニュウ】 milking (a cow, goat, etc.), breast pumping, milk expression
  • 圧搾 【アッサク】 pressure, compression, pressing

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zha4
Korean:
chag

Spanish

  • apretón
  • estrujón
  • presión
  • apretar
  • estrujar
  • comprimir

Portuguese

  • espremer

French

  • presser
1301 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2015 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1975 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1777 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1377 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1497 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1596 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1484 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
920 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
798 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
466 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
594 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1336 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12553 Morohashi
649 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2251 New Nelson (John Haig)
1324 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1422 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1629 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1354 2001 Kanji
3c10.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
5301.1 Four corner code
1-26-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
643e Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
oil, fat
Kun:
あぶら
On:
ユウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
690 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 油井 【ユセイ】 oil well
  • 油彩 【ユサイ】 oil painting
  • 重油 【ジュウユ】 heavy oil, fuel oil
  • 軽油 【ケイユ】 diesel oil, diesel fuel, gas oil, light oil
  • 油色 【ユショク】 coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil
  • 油然 【ユウゼン】 gushingly, freely (welling up), copiously

Kun reading compounds

  • 油 【あぶら】 oil
  • 油絵 【あぶらえ】 oil painting
  • 匂い油 【においあぶら】 perfumed hair oil
  • 機械油 【きかいあぶら】 machine oil

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
you2
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • aceite
  • grasa

Portuguese

  • petróleo
  • gordura
  • óleo

French

  • huile
  • gras
522 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
422 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
400 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
689 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2534 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
298 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
671 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
593 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
364 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
365 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
624 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1183 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
400 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
255 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
303 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1116 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17253 Morohashi
341 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3106 New Nelson (John Haig)
1107 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1188 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
317 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
376 2001 Kanji
3a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
3516.0 Four corner code
1-44-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6cb9 Unicode hex code