Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
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On reading compounds

  • 溺愛 【デキアイ】 infatuation, adoration, blind love, doting (on a child)
  • 溺死 【デキシ】 death by drowning
  • 惑溺 【ワクデキ】 indulgence, addiction, infatuation
  • 沈溺 【チンデキ】 being immersed in water, being drowned, being infatuated, being dazed, being blinded by

Kun reading compounds

  • 溺れる 【おぼれる】 to struggle in the water, to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe, to (nearly) drown, to indulge in, to lose one's head over something, to be addicted, to wallow in
  • 溺れる者は藁をも掴む 【おぼれるものはわらをもつかむ】 a drowning man will clutch at a straw

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ni4, niao4
Korean:
nig, nyo

Spanish

  • ahogo
  • éxtasis
  • entusiasmo
  • satisfacción
  • ahogarse
  • entusiasmarse
  • estar en éxtasis
  • darse el gusto de

Portuguese

French

2652 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
966 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
805 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
599 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
17990X Morohashi
3271 New Nelson (John Haig)
2308 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1324 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3a10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
3712.7 Four corner code
1-37-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6eba Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
old 老 (耂)
Parts:
Variants:
someone, person
Kun:
もの
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
38 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 者 【シャ】 person, -er, expert, geisha, prostitute
  • 芸者 【ゲイシャ】 geisha, professional female entertainer, usu. at traditional banquets
  • 加害者 【カガイシャ】 perpetrator, wrong-doer, aggressor, assailant, offender

Kun reading compounds

  • 者 【もの】 person
  • 者ども 【ものども】 you, people
  • 弱き者 【よわきもの】 weak person, the weak
  • 若い者 【わかいもの】 young person, young people, youth, youngsters, young employee, young manservant, young follower

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhe3
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • persona

Portuguese

  • alguém
  • pessoa

French

  • personne
  • quelqu'un
235 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
314 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
298 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
22 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3685 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
56 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
240 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
769 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.6 Japanese for Busy People
164 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
164 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
148 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1578 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3980 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2047 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2765 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1264 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28852 Morohashi
3211 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4698 New Nelson (John Haig)
1256 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1345 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
19 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
302 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1478 2001 Kanji
4c4.13 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-4 SKIP code
4-8-2 SKIP code
2-4-4 SKIP code
4460.0 Four corner code
1-28-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8005 Unicode hex code

17 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
straw
Kun:
わら
On:
コウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2488 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 藁 【わら】 straw
  • 笑 【わら】 LOL, haha
  • 敷き藁 【しきわら】 (animal's) litter, bedding
  • 巻藁 【まきわら】 straw post for training sword strikes, karate punches and arrow hits

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gao3
Korean:
go

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4083 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2682 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3015 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2103 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
32222X Morohashi
5234 New Nelson (John Haig)
2400 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2480 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k14.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-14 SKIP code
2-4-14 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-47-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
85c1 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
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Kun reading compounds

  • 掴む 【つかむ】 to seize, to catch, to grasp, to grip, to grab, to clutch, to hold, to catch hold of, to lay one's hands on, to obtain, to acquire, to get, to win, to capture, to understand, to grasp, to comprehend
  • 捕まえる 【つかまえる】 to catch, to capture, to arrest, to seize, to restrain, to grab, to clutch, to grasp, to seize, to hold on to, to catch hold of (someone), to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street), to hail (a taxi, waiter, etc.), to hold (someone) back, to detain, towards (someone), at (someone), in (someone's) face
  • 捕まる 【つかまる】 to be caught, to be arrested, to hold on to, to grasp, to find (e.g. proof), to get (e.g. a taxi), to be detained by

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2, guai1
Korean:
gwig

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1985 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
616 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12572X Morohashi
690 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2174 New Nelson (John Haig)
2249 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2354 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3c11.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
5600.0 Four corner code
1-36-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
63b4 Unicode hex code