Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
vermilion, cinnabar, scarlet, red, bloody
Kun:
あけ
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1788 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 朱 【シュ】 vermillion (colour), cinnabar, red orange, vermillion (pigment), cinnabar ink stick, correction written in red ink
  • 銖 【シュ】 shu, unit of weight, 1/24th of a ryō, shu, Edo-period unit of currency, 1/16th of a ryō
  • 堆朱 【ツイシュ】 red lacquerware with patterns carved in relief
  • 銀朱 【ギンシュ】 vermilion (pigment)

Kun reading compounds

  • 朱 【あけ】 red, vermilion, cinnabar, scarlet
  • 朱に染まる 【あけにそまる】 to welter in blood, to be covered in blood

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あか、 あき、 す
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu1
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • bermellón
  • rojo oscuro
  • antigua unidad monetaria

Portuguese

  • vermelhão
  • zinabre
  • escarlate
  • vermelho
  • ensangüentado

French

  • vermillon
  • rouge
  • écarlate
  • sanglant
1346 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1720 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
184 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1681 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1415 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
341 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1503 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1602 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1768 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1049 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4344 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2200 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2960 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
226 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14424 Morohashi
3531 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2546 New Nelson (John Haig)
221 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
235 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1081 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2464 2001 Kanji
0a6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-3 SKIP code
2590.0 Four corner code
1-28-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6731 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Confucian
On:
ジュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2162 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 儒 【ジュ】 Confucianism, Confucianist, Chinese scholar
  • 儒教 【ジュキョウ】 Confucianism
  • 大儒 【タイジュ】 great Confucian (scholar), great scholar, person of great erudition
  • 坑儒 【コウジュ】 burying Confucian scholars alive

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ru2
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • confucionismo

Portuguese

  • Confucianista

French

  • confucéen
1352 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1968 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
561 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1579 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1072 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2432 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1417 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1506 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1891 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
138 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
197 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
127 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
153 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1174 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1220 Morohashi
174 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
330 New Nelson (John Haig)
1166 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1250 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1820 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2153 2001 Kanji
2a14.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-14 SKIP code
2122.7 Four corner code
1-28-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5112 Unicode hex code