Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
star, spot, dot, mark
Kun:
ほし-ぼし
On:
セイショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
844 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 星 【セイ】 Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions), Singapore
  • 星座 【セイザ】 constellation, astrological sign, star sign, zodiac sign
  • 新星 【シンセイ】 nova, new face, new star
  • 小惑星 【ショウワクセイ】 asteroid
  • 客星 【カクセイ】 celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)
  • 七星 【シチセイ】 the Big Dipper (asterism), the Plough, the Plow

Kun reading compounds

  • 星 【ほし】 star (usu. excluding the Sun), planet (usu. excluding Earth), heavenly body, star (glyph, symbol, shape), asterisk, star (actor, player, etc.), dot, spot, fleck, bullseye, perp, perpetrator, culprit, offender, suspect, one's star (that determines one's fate), one's fortune, point, score, star point (intersection marked with a dot), hoshi, (pyrotechnic) star
  • 星空 【ほしぞら】 starry sky
  • 四三の星 【しそうのほし】 the Big Dipper (asterism), the Plough, the Plow
  • 希望の星 【きぼうのほし】 ray of light, ray of hope, promising talent

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xing1
Korean:
seong

Spanish

  • estrella
  • punto pequeño
  • resultado de un juego

Portuguese

  • estrela
  • ponto
  • marca

French

  • étoile
  • point
  • marque
264 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
171 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
154 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
877 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2121 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
838 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
599 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
946 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
730 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
743 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
463 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
973 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3089 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1577 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2156 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1570 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13837 Morohashi
2435 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2452 New Nelson (John Haig)
1556 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1676 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
181 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3872 2001 Kanji
4c5.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-5 SKIP code
6010.4 Four corner code
1-32-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
661f Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广
squat, seat, cushion, gathering, sit
Kun:
すわ.る
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
588 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 座 【ザ】 seat, place, position, status, gathering, party, company, atmosphere (of a gathering), stand, pedestal, platform, trade guild, attaches to the names of constellations, attaches to the names of theatres, cinemas and theatrical troupes, counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs
  • 座敷 【ザシキ】 tatami room, tatami mat room, formal Japanese room, dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)
  • 連座 【レンザ】 implication (in a crime), involvement, sitting in a row (in the same seat)
  • 同坐 【ドウザ】 sitting together, the same theater (theatre), involvement, entanglement, implication

Kun reading compounds

  • 座る 【すわる】 to sit, to squat, to assume (a position), to hold steady, to hold still

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zuo4
Korean:
jwa

Spanish

  • sitio
  • asiento
  • constelación
  • sentarse

Portuguese

  • agachar
  • assento
  • almofada
  • reunião
  • sentar

French

  • s'accroupir
  • s'asseoir
  • siège
  • coussin
  • rassemblement
  • théâtre
  • constellation
880 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
870 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
377 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1515 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1089 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
510 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1245 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
786 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
800 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
175 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
590 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3868 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1989 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2686 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1033 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9319 Morohashi
3116 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1619 New Nelson (John Haig)
1024 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1100 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
900 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
572 2001 Kanji
3q7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
0021.4 Four corner code
1-26-34 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ea7 Unicode hex code

18 strokes
Radical:
eye
Parts:
wink, blink, twinkle
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1265 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 瞬時 【シュンジ】 instant, moment, (split) second, (in a) flash, (in the) blink of an eye
  • 瞬間 【シュンカン】 moment, second, instant
  • 数瞬 【スウシュン】 a few moments
  • 転瞬 【テンシュン】 blink of an eye, instant, moment

Kun reading compounds

  • 瞬く 【またたく】 to twinkle (e.g. stars), to flicker, to waver, to blink (one's eyes), to wink, to bat
  • 瞬く間 【またたくま】 brief moment, blink of an eye (time span)
  • 瞬ぐ 【まじろぐ】 to wink, to blink, to twinkle, to flicker

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shun4
Korean:
sun

Spanish

  • instante
  • momento

Portuguese

  • pestanejar
  • piscar

French

  • cligner
  • pétiller (yeux)
1372 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1315 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3159 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1556 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1564 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1732 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1850 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
979 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1391 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1594 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
841 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1151 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
825 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23694 Morohashi
1247 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3969 New Nelson (John Haig)
817 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
880 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1897 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3955 2001 Kanji
5c13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-13 SKIP code
6205.2 Four corner code
1-29-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
77ac Unicode hex code