Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
forest, woods
Kun:
もり
On:
シン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
609 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 森林 【シンリン】 forest, woods
  • 森閑 【シンカン】 silent, still, quiet, hushed
  • 森々 【シンシン】 dense with trees, deeply forested

Kun reading compounds

  • 森 【もり】 forest, shrine grove
  • 森青蛙 【もりあおがえる】 forest green tree frog (Rhacophorus arboreus)
  • どう森 【どうもり】 Animal Crossing (video game series) (abbr)
  • 青森 【あおもり】 Aomori (city, prefecture)

Readings

Japanese names:
もと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sen1
Korean:
sam

Spanish

  • bosque

Portuguese

  • floresta
  • mata

French

  • forêt
  • bois
41 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
65 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
38 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
532 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2301 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
152 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
198 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1735 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
128 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
128 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
460 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1063 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3123 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1602 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2184 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
201 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14974 Morohashi
2475 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2749 New Nelson (John Haig)
197 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
209 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
80 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1864 2001 Kanji
4a8.39 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-8 SKIP code
4099.4 Four corner code
1-31-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
68ee Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 梟悪 【キョウアク】 great treachery, very atrocious person
  • 梟罪 【キョウザイ】 penalty of decapitation and exposure of the severed head

Kun reading compounds

  • 梟 【ふくろう】 owl (esp. the Ural owl, Strix uralensis)
  • 梟鸚鵡 【ふくろうおうむ】 kakapo (Strigops habroptila), owl parrot
  • 尾長梟 【おながふくろう】 northern hawk owl (Surnia ulula)
  • 樺太梟 【からふとふくろう】 great grey owl (Strix nebulosa)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao1
Korean:
hyo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

235 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
14861 Morohashi
2703 New Nelson (John Haig)
2837 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2852 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a7.28 The Kanji Dictionary
2-7-4 SKIP code
2790.4 Four corner code
1-59-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
689f Unicode hex code