| 536 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 1394 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 215 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2212 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 884 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1419 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 869 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 696 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 709 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 970 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1075 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1075 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 580 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 769 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 793 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 14516 | Morohashi |
| 864 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2592 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 785 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 848 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 483 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 508 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
471 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 松竹梅 【ショウチクバイ】 pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping), high, middle and low (ranking), top, middle and bottom, upper, medium, lower, first, second and third (class)
- 鰹 【カツオ】 skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), oceanic bonito, victorfish
- 老松 【ロウショウ】 old pine tree
- 翠松 【スイショウ】 verdant pine, green pine
Kun reading compounds
- 松 【まつ】 pine tree (Pinus spp.), highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
- 松下電工 【まつしたでんこう】 Matsushita Electric Works
- 赤松 【あかまつ】 Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora), Japanese umbrella pine, tanyosho pine
- 浜松 【はままつ】 Hamamatsu (city)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- おお、 しょ、 ま、 まっ
- Korean:
- song
Spanish
- pino
Portuguese
- pinheiro
French
- pin
| 1871 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4a4.16 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-4 | SKIP code |
| 4893.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-30-30 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 677e | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 蝉声 【センセイ】 cicada singing
- 秋蝉 【アキゼミ】 cicadas that sing when autumn comes
- 寒蝉 【カンゼミ】 cicadas which sing in late autumn
- 寒蝉 【カンゼミ】 cicadas which sing in late autumn
Kun reading compounds
- 蝉 【せみ】 cicada, locust, small-sized pulley
- 蝉海老 【せみえび】 blunt slipper lobster (species of shovel-nosed lobster, Scyllarides squammosus)
- 空蝉 【うつせみ】 one's present existence, this mortal frame, this world, this life, temporal things, cast-off cicada shell, cicada
- 秋の蝉 【あきのせみ】 cicadas that sing when autumn comes, cicadas that sing even in autumn
Readings
- Korean:
- seon
Spanish
- cigarra
Portuguese
French
| 4190 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1774 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 33616 | Morohashi |
| 5349 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2692 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2731 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 6d12.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-6-9 | SKIP code |
| 1-6-12 | SKIP code |
| 5615.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-32-70 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8749 | Unicode hex code |