Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
decide, fix, agree upon, appoint
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
71 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 決 【ケツ】 decision, vote
  • 決意 【ケツイ】 decision, determination, resolution
  • 表決 【ヒョウケツ】 vote, voting
  • 強行採決 【キョウコウサイケツ】 forced passage (of a bill, measure, resolution, etc.), railroading, steamrolling, steamrollering

Kun reading compounds

  • 決める 【きめる】 to decide, to choose, to determine, to make up one's mind, to resolve, to set one's heart on, to settle, to arrange, to set, to appoint, to fix, to clinch (a victory), to decide (the outcome of a match), to persist in doing, to go through with, to always do, to have made a habit of, to take for granted, to assume, to dress up, to dress to kill, to dress to the nines, to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.), to succeed in doing, to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.), to eat or drink something, to take illegal drugs
  • 決まる 【きまる】 to be decided, to be settled, to be fixed, to be arranged, to be unchanging, to be the same (as always), to be fixed, to be set, to be a fixed rule, to be destined, to be a convention, to be a custom, to be common knowledge, to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.), to go well, to succeed, to connect (of a punch), to look good (of clothing), to look sharp, to be stylish, to suit one, to be held in place (of a hairdo), to be struck and held (of a pose in kabuki)
  • 決る 【しゃくる】 to dig out, to gouge out, to hollow out, to scoop, to ladle, to bail, to jerk (one's chin)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jue2
Korean:
gyeol

Spanish

  • decidir
  • fijar
  • quedar decidido

Portuguese

  • decida
  • fixar
  • concordar sobre
  • nomear

French

  • décider
  • fixer
  • se mettre d'accord
  • arrangement
202 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
289 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
271 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
94 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2509 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
230 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
667 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
402 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
356 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
357 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
277 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1163 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
308 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
197 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1656 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17174 Morohashi
263 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3070 New Nelson (John Haig)
1641 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1770 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
138 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
281 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
363 2001 Kanji
3a4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
3513.0 Four corner code
1-23-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c7a Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
hand
Kun:
て--てた-
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
60 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 手術 【シュジュツ】 surgery, operation, procedure, skill with one's hands, sleight of hand
  • 手記 【シュキ】 note, memorandum, memo, memoirs, personal account
  • 二塁手 【ニルイシュ】 second baseman
  • 名手 【メイシュ】 master, expert, brilliant move (in go, shogi, etc.), excellent move
  • 交際上手 【コウサイジョウズ】 good at socializing, sociability, being a good mixer
  • 処世上手 【ショセイジョウズ】 knowing how to get on in the world, knowing the secret of success in life

Kun reading compounds

  • 手 【て】 hand, arm, forepaw, foreleg, handle, hand, worker, help, trouble, care, effort, means, way, trick, move, technique, workmanship, hand, handwriting, kind, type, sort, one's hands, one's possession, ability to cope, hand (of cards), direction, move (in go, shogi, etc.)
  • 手足 【てあし】 hands and feet, limbs, person at one's beck and call, person at hand, reliable worker
  • 逆手 【ぎゃくて】 underhand grip, backhand grip (e.g. in tennis), unexpected twist, turning the tables (on an opponent)
  • 担い手 【にないて】 bearer, carrier, person bearing responsibility, person in charge, supporter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • mano

Portuguese

  • mão

French

  • main
28 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
35 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
32 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
42 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1827 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
37 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
54 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
118 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.19 Japanese for Busy People
57 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
57 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
170 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
847 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4267 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2155 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2907 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
644 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11768 Morohashi
3456 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2060 New Nelson (John Haig)
637 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
687 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
57 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
30 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2247 2001 Kanji
3c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
2-1-3 SKIP code
2050.0 Four corner code
1-28-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
624b Unicode hex code