Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice
Kun:
す.てる
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
901 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 棄権 【キケン】 abstention (from voting), renunciation (of a right), withdrawal (from a contest)
  • 棄却 【キキャク】 rejection, dismissal, turning down, abandoning, renunciation
  • 投棄 【トウキ】 abandonment, giving up, throwing away, disposal, dumping
  • 遺棄 【イキ】 abandonment, desertion

Kun reading compounds

  • 捨てる 【すてる】 to throw away, to cast away, to dump, to discard, to abandon, to desert, to leave, to give up, to resign

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi4
Korean:
gi

Spanish

  • tirar
  • descartar
  • abandonar
  • arrojar
  • desechar

Portuguese

  • desembaraço
  • gastar
  • descartar
  • pedir demissão
  • rejeitar
  • sacrifício

French

  • abandonner
  • jeter
  • se débarrasser
  • renoncer
  • rejeter
  • sacrifier
1131 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1103 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
326 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1178 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1437 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2202 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
962 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
993 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1653 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1065 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2651 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1353 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1835 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
765 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14913X Morohashi
2137 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2787 New Nelson (John Haig)
758 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
820 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1634 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
464 2001 Kanji
2j11.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-11 SKIP code
2-4-8 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
2-2-10 SKIP code
0090.4 Four corner code
1-20-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
68c4 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
generation, world, society, public
Kun:
On:
セイソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
135 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 世 【セイ】 counter for generations, epoch
  • 世紀 【セイキ】 century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
  • 近世 【キンセイ】 recent past, recent times, early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)
  • 創世 【ソウセイ】 creation of the world
  • 世 【セイ】 counter for generations, epoch
  • 世紀 【セイキ】 century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
  • 夜店 【ヨミセ】 night stall, night shop, night fair
  • 救世 【キュウセイ】 salvation

Kun reading compounds

  • 世 【よ】 world, society, public, life, lifetime, age, era, period, epoch, generation, reign, rule, the times, world (of existence)
  • 世の中 【よのなか】 society, the world, the times
  • 千代 【ちよ】 thousand years, very long period, forever
  • 君が代 【きみがよ】 Imperial reign, Kimigayo (Japanese national anthem)

Readings

Japanese names:
とし、 ゆ、 ゆき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
se

Spanish

  • generación
  • mundo
  • edad

Portuguese

  • geração
  • mundo
  • sociedade
  • pública

French

  • génération
  • monde
  • société
  • public
263 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
344 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
327 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
152 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
95 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
177 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
105 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
335 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.13 Japanese for Busy People
252 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
252 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
156 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
13 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4308 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2178 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2932 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
28 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31 Morohashi
3496 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
20 New Nelson (John Haig)
28 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
28 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
81 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
254 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1975 2001 Kanji
0a5.37 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
4-4-4 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
4-4-2 SKIP code
4471.7 Four corner code
1-32-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e16 Unicode hex code