Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
once upon a time, antiquity, old times
Kun:
むかし
On:
セキシャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1197 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 昔時 【セキジ】 old times, former times
  • 昔日 【セキジツ】 old days
  • 今昔 【コンジャク】 past and present
  • 往昔 【オウセキ】 ancient times

Kun reading compounds

  • 昔 【むかし】 the old days, the past, former times, a long time ago, the past ten years, the past decade
  • 昔話 【むかしばなし】 old tale, folk tale, legend, reminiscence
  • 一昔 【ひとむかし】 an age (ago), a long time (ago), a decade (ago)
  • 遥か昔 【はるかむかし】 long ago

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi2, xi1
Korean:
seog, chag

Spanish

  • antiguamente
  • antigüedad
  • viejos tiempos
  • tiempo atrás

Portuguese

  • Era uma vez
  • antiquidade
  • tempos antigos

French

  • autrefois
  • antiquité
  • il était une fois
346 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1481 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1200 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2108 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
988 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
598 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
699 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
764 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
778 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
428 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
970 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3086 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1574 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2153 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1192 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13816 Morohashi
2432 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2433 New Nelson (John Haig)
1184 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1268 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
306 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1978 2001 Kanji
3k5.28 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
4460.1 Four corner code
1-32-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6614 Unicode hex code

8 strokes (also 7)
Radical:
legs
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 兎に角 【トニカク】 anyway, anyhow, at any rate, in any case, at least, just, setting aside ..., regardless of ..., really, truly, certainly, definitely, undeniably
  • 兎角 【トカク】 (doing) various things, (doing) this and that, being apt to, being prone to, tending to, at any rate, anyhow, anyway, all sorts of (negative things), various, things that do not exist, rabbit horns
  • 烏兎 【ウト】 sun and moon, time, the years, the months
  • 狡兎 【コウト】 smart rabbit, cunning rabbit, nimble rabbit

Kun reading compounds

  • 兎 【うさぎ】 rabbit, hare, coney, cony, lagomorph (esp. leporids)
  • 兎網 【うさぎあみ】 rabbit-catching net
  • 月の兎 【つきのうさぎ】 moon rabbit, moon hare, mythical figure who lives on the moon
  • 飼兎 【かいうさぎ】 domestic rabbit (variety of European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tu4
Korean:
to

Spanish

  • conejo
  • liebre

Portuguese

French

198 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
763 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4374 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2981 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1359X Morohashi
358 New Nelson (John Haig)
2093 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2235 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a8.5 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-4 SKIP code
4-7-4 SKIP code
2051.3 Four corner code
1-37-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
514e Unicode hex code