Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
extinguish, blow out, turn off, neutralize, cancel
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
345 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 消火 【ショウカ】 fire fighting, extinguishing a fire
  • 消化 【ショウカ】 digestion (of food), digestion (of information), assimilation, thorough understanding, consumption, absorption, using up, meeting (e.g. a quota), completion, losing one's form and turning into something else
  • 費消 【ヒショウ】 spending, consumption, misappropriation, embezzlement
  • 曖昧性解消 【アイマイセイカイショウ】 disambiguation

Kun reading compounds

  • 消える 【きえる】 to disappear, to vanish, to go out of sight, to go away, to become lost, to go out (of a fire, light, etc.), to die, to turn off (e.g. of a TV screen), to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.), to vanish (e.g. of hope), to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness), to disappear, to fade away (e.g. of footsteps), to wear away (e.g. of an inscription), to rub out (of writing), to fade (e.g. of ink), to be lost (e.g. of a tradition), to die out, to disappear
  • 消す 【けす】 to erase, to rub out, to rub off, to cross out, to delete, to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.), to switch off, to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.), to put out, to remove (a smell, pain, etc.), to eliminate, to get rid of, to relieve (pain, anxiety, etc.), to neutralize (poison), to drown out (a sound), to deaden, to absorb, to muffle, to kill, to murder, to bump off, to rub out

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao1
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • extinguirse
  • apagarse
  • desaparecer
  • apagar
  • extinguir

Portuguese

  • extinguir
  • apagar
  • desligar
  • neutralizar
  • cancelar

French

  • éteindre
  • effacer
  • disparaître
  • neutraliser
  • annuler
429 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
332 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
316 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
336 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2574 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
612 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
686 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
845 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
864 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
219 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1194 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
531 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
327 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
402 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
146 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17529P Morohashi
443 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3158 New Nelson (John Haig)
144 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
155 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
458 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
357 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a7.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3912.7 Four corner code
1-30-35 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d88 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
gate
Parts:
Variants:
leisure
On:
カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1994 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 閑 【カン】 spare time, free time, leisure
  • 閑散 【カンサン】 deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets), quiet, still, hushed, empty, inactive (business, trade, etc.), slack, flat, off-season, quiet, dull, idle, free, unoccupied
  • 清閑 【セイカン】 peaceful, quiet, tranquility, tranquillity
  • 休閑 【キュウカン】 fallowing

Readings

Japanese names:
が、 より
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian2
Korean:
han

Spanish

  • ocio
  • tiempo libre

Portuguese

  • lazer

French

  • loisirs
1109 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1645 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4948 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1280 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1861 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1820 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1532 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1633 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1718 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1842 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4123 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2093 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2837 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1639 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41247 Morohashi
3322 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6390 New Nelson (John Haig)
1625 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1753 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1598 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3864 2001 Kanji
8e4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-8-4 SKIP code
7790.4 Four corner code
1-20-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9591 Unicode hex code