Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
Variants:
exchange, spare, substitute, per-
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
979 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 移替 【イタイ】 changing (person in charge, etc.), shifting
  • 衰替 【スイタイ】 weakening, declining

Kun reading compounds

  • 替える 【かえる】 to replace, to convert, to change, to exchange, to interchange, to renew, to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
  • 替わる 【かわる】 to succeed, to relieve, to replace, to take the place of, to substitute for, to take over for, to represent, to hand over (telephone), to be exchanged, to change (places with), to switch

Readings

Japanese names:
かえ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ti4
Korean:
che

Spanish

  • cambio
  • sustitución
  • intercambio
  • cambiar
  • sustituir
  • intercambiar
  • convertir

Portuguese

  • troca
  • reserva
  • substituto
  • por-

French

  • substituer
  • remplacer
  • échanger
1548 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
849 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2140 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1398 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
611 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
744 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
757 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
375 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1001 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3457 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1780 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2424 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
850 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14300 Morohashi
2783 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2486 New Nelson (John Haig)
842 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
905 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1547 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1478 2001 Kanji
4c8.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
5560.3 Four corner code
1-34-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66ff Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:
Variants:
blade, sword, edge
Kun:
やいばき.る
On:
ジンニン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1763 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 兵刃 【ヘイジン】 sword blade
  • 刀刃 【トウジン】 sword blade
  • 刃傷 【ニンジョウ】 bloodshed
  • 刃傷沙汰 【ニンジョウザタ】 bloodshed

Kun reading compounds

  • 刃 【は】 edge (of a knife or sword), blade, prong (of an electrical plug)
  • 鋼 【はがね】 steel, sword steel, sword
  • 諸刃 【もろは】 double-edged (e.g. sword blade), double-beveled (e.g. kitchen knife), double-edged blade
  • 抜き刃 【ぬきは】 die blade, cutting die
  • 刃 【やいば】 blade, sword, forged blade, wavy pattern on forged blades, sharpness, unhulled rice
  • 刃を交える 【やいばをまじえる】 to cross swords (with)
  • 鬼滅の刃 【きめつのやいば】 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (manga, anime)
  • 氷の刃 【こおりのやいば】 gleaming sword

Readings

Japanese names:
ち、 と
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ren4
Korean:
in

Spanish

  • hoja
  • filo

Portuguese

  • lâmina
  • espada
  • margem

French

  • lame
  • épée
  • fil (épée)
1446 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1526 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
152 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1107 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1089 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1413 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1502 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1774 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
178 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3646 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1860 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2537 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
85 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1850 Morohashi
2929 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
449 New Nelson (John Haig)
84 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
88 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1014 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3545 2001 Kanji
0a3.22 The Kanji Dictionary
3-1-2 SKIP code
4-3-1 SKIP code
1742.0 Four corner code
1732.0 Four corner code
1-31-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5203 Unicode hex code