Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
write
Kun:
か.く-が.き-がき
On:
ショ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
169 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 書 【ショ】 book, document, calligraphy (esp. Chinese), penmanship, handwriting, letter, note
  • 書院 【ショイン】 drawing room, study, writing alcove, publishing house
  • 投書 【トウショ】 letter (e.g. of complaint), letter to the editor, letter from a reader, contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
  • 議定書 【ギテイショ】 protocol

Kun reading compounds

  • 書く 【かく】 to write, to compose, to pen, to draw, to paint

Readings

Japanese names:
かき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu1
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • escritura
  • escrito
  • escribir

Portuguese

  • escrever

French

  • écrire
92 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
159 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
142 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
130 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3719 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
70 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
58 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1216 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
131 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
131 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
181 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
998 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1703 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2314 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
333 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14294 Morohashi
2658 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2463 New Nelson (John Haig)
327 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
349 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
121 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
197 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1678 2001 Kanji
4c6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
5060.1 Four corner code
1-29-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66f8 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
open country
Parts:
Variants:
tome, counter for books, volume
Kun:
ふみ
On:
サツサク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1313 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 冊 【サツ】 counter for books, volume
  • 別冊 【ベッサツ】 separate volume, extra issue, supplement, additional volume, supplementary volume
  • 合冊 【ガッサツ】 collection in one volume
  • 冊 【サク】 imperial edict to confer nobility titles (in ancient China)
  • 冊封 【サクホウ】 bestowing peerage by imperial edict (in ancient China), document bestowing peerage

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ce4
Korean:
chaeg

Spanish

  • tomo
  • volumen
  • contador para libros

Portuguese

  • tome
  • sufixo para contagem de para livros
  • volume

French

  • tome
  • volume
  • compteur de livres
884 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
874 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1184 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
88 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
956 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
346 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
190 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1158 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1213 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1312 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
161 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4295 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2171 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2925 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1843 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1515 Morohashi
3483 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
389 New Nelson (John Haig)
1826 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1967 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
835 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3647 2001 Kanji
0a5.42 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
7744.0 Four corner code
1-26-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
518a Unicode hex code