Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:

Speed

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Kun reading compounds

  • 柊 【ひいらぎ】 holly olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus), false holly, holly, spotnape ponyfish (Leiognathus nuchalis)
  • 柊鰯 【ひいらぎいわし】 sardine and holly charm, sardine head and holly branch placed next to the front door during setsubun to ward off demons
  • 西洋柊 【せいようひいらぎ】 English holly (Ilex aquifolium)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhong1
Korean:
jong

Spanish

  • acebo

Portuguese

French

2221 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
860 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2105 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2034 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1119 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
608 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
807 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14610X Morohashi
2614 New Nelson (John Haig)
2485 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2548 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a5.24 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-5 SKIP code
4793.3 Four corner code
1-41-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67ca Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
vegetable, side dish, greens
Kun:
On:
サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1327 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 菜 【サイ】 side dish
  • 菜園 【サイエン】 vegetable garden
  • 山菜 【サンサイ】 edible wild plants
  • 前菜 【ゼンサイ】 hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, appetiser, starter

Kun reading compounds

  • 菜 【な】 greens, vegetables, rape (Brassica napus), rapeseed
  • 菜種 【なたね】 rapeseed, coleseed
  • 若菜 【わかな】 young greens, young herbs
  • うまい菜 【うまいな】 Swiss chard

Readings

Japanese names:
よう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cai4
Korean:
chae

Spanish

  • verduras
  • entremeses
  • vegetales

Portuguese

  • legume
  • salada
  • verduras

French

  • légume
  • accompagnement (du riz)
401 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
509 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
483 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1108 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3982 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
870 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
246 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1447 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
931 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
958 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
774 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
660 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2880 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1486 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2004 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
742 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31184P Morohashi
2305 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5097 New Nelson (John Haig)
734 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
793 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
566 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k8.25 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-26-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83dc Unicode hex code