Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
deep, heighten, intensify, strengthen
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
484 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 深刻 【シンコク】 serious, severe, grave, acute
  • 深海 【シンカイ】 deep sea, depths of the sea, ocean depths
  • 以深 【イシン】 ... or deeper, ... and below
  • 海深 【カイシン】 depth of the sea

Kun reading compounds

  • 深い 【ふかい】 deep, profound, dense, thick, close (relationship), intense, strong, late
  • 深入り 【ふかいり】 getting deeply involved, going deeply into, going too far (into something)
  • 深まる 【ふかまる】 to deepen, to heighten, to intensify
  • 深める 【ふかめる】 to deepen, to heighten, to intensify

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shen1
Korean:
sim

Spanish

  • profundo
  • hondo
  • profundizar
  • profundizar en

Portuguese

  • fundo
  • aumentar
  • intensificar
  • fortalecer

French

  • profond
  • augmenter
  • intensifier
  • renforcer
258 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
342 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
325 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
552 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2606 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
593 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
690 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1341 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
536 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
121 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1212 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
636 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
385 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
480 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1339 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17687 Morohashi
524 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3206 New Nelson (John Haig)
1328 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1426 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
424 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
377 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
364 2001 Kanji
3a8.21 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3719.4 Four corner code
1-31-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6df1 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
strangle, constrict, wring
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1288 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絞 【コウ】 death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)
  • 絞殺 【コウサツ】 strangulation, strangling

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize
  • 絞める 【しめる】 to strangle, to constrict
  • 絞まる 【しまる】 to be strangled, to be constricted

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao3, jia3
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • constreñir
  • contraer
  • torcer
  • estrujar

Portuguese

  • estrangular
  • apertar
  • torcer

French

  • étrangler
  • serrer
  • tordre
1261 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1825 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3535 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1394 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1630 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1452 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1565 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1533 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1707 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
913 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1236 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1360 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27421 Morohashi
1349 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4485 New Nelson (John Haig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1448 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1576 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2766 2001 Kanji
6a6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
2094.8 Four corner code
1-25-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d5e Unicode hex code