Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
stop
Parts:
Variants:
tooth, cog
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1106 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 歯 【シ】 tooth, age, years
  • 歯科 【シカ】 dentistry
  • 義歯 【ギシ】 artificial tooth
  • 生歯 【セイシ】 teething, cutting teeth, dentition

Kun reading compounds

  • 齢 【よわい】 (one's) age
  • 歯する 【よわいする】 to associate (with), to join the company of, to stand alongside (as an equal)
  • 歯 【は】 tooth, teeth, tooth (of a comb, saw, etc.), cog, support (of a geta)
  • 歯切れ 【はぎれ】 feel when biting, manner of enunciation
  • 継ぎ歯 【つぎば】 capped tooth, (dental) crown
  • 年端 【としは】 age, years (old)
  • 齢 【よわい】 (one's) age
  • 歯する 【よわいする】 to associate (with), to join the company of, to stand alongside (as an equal)
  • 歯する 【よわいする】 to associate (with), to join the company of, to stand alongside (as an equal)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chi3
Korean:
chi

Spanish

  • diente
  • diente de engranaje

Portuguese

  • dentes
  • dentes de engrenagens

French

  • dent
  • dentée (roue)
  • crémaillère (rail)
414 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
306 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
290 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
997 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5428 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
439 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
652 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2051 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
478 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
486 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
702 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1942 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3124 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1603 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2185 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1179 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16323 Morohashi
2476 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2961 New Nelson (John Haig)
1171 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1255 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
398 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1275 2001 Kanji
6b6.11 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-8 SKIP code
2177.2 Four corner code
1-27-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b6f Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
meat
Kun:
しし
On:
ニク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
986 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肉 【ニク】 flesh, meat, flesh (of a fruit), pulp, the physical body (as opposed to the spirit), flesh, thickness, content, substance, flesh, ink pad
  • 肉親 【ニクシン】 blood relationship, blood relative
  • 食肉 【ショクニク】 meat (for consumption)
  • 中肉 【チュウニク】 medium build, meat of medium quality

Kun reading compounds

  • 肉 【しし】 flesh (esp. of an animal), meat
  • 肉合い 【ししあい】 fleshiness, plumpness
  • 鹿 【かのしし】 venison, deer
  • 脯 【ほしし】 dried meat, jerky

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
rou4
Korean:
yug, yu

Spanish

  • carne

Portuguese

  • carne

French

  • chair
  • viande
297 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
209 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
365 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
779 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3724 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
533 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
241 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
223 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
223 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
561 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1010 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3966 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2042 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2756 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1031 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29236 Morohashi
3200 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4753 New Nelson (John Haig)
1022 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1098 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
134 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1653 2001 Kanji
2a4.20 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-2 SKIP code
4-6-4 SKIP code
3-2-4 SKIP code
4022.7 Four corner code
1-38-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8089 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
gutter, ditch, sewer, drain, 10**32
Kun:
みぞ
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1736 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 溝 【コウ】 10^32, hundred nonillion
  • 溝渠 【コウキョ】 ditch, sewer, canal
  • 排水溝 【ハイスイコウ】 drainage, gutter, ditch
  • 海溝 【カイコウ】 oceanic trench, deep-sea trench, deep

Kun reading compounds

  • 溝 【みぞ】 ditch, drain, gutter, trench, groove, tread, indentation, gap (between people, countries, etc.), gulf, rift
  • 溝隠 【みぞかくし】 Chinese lobelia (Lobelia chinensis)
  • 押さえ溝 【おさえみぞ】 groove in the body of wooden plane which holds the blade
  • 逃げ溝 【にげみぞ】 clearance groove, under cut

Readings

Japanese names:
どぶ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gou1
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • cuneta
  • zanja
  • alcantarilla
  • desagüe

Portuguese

  • ranhura
  • canal
  • encanamento
  • dreno
  • 10 elevado a 32

French

  • rigole
  • fossé
  • égout
  • 10**32
1263 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1706 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2657 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1487 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1859 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1012 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1050 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1499 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1232 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
810 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
473 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
604 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1836 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17944X Morohashi
659 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3275 New Nelson (John Haig)
1819 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1960 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1639 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
347 2001 Kanji
3a10.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
3514.7 Four corner code
1-25-34 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e9d Unicode hex code