Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
slippery, slide, slip, fail exam
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1238 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 滑落 【カツラク】 sliding down (a slope, mountainside), slipping down
  • 滑液 【カツエキ】 synovial fluid
  • 平滑 【ヘイカツ】 smooth, even, level, flat
  • 粘滑 【ネンカツ】 mucilaginous, demulcent

Kun reading compounds

  • 滑る 【すべる】 to glide, to slide (e.g. on skis), to slip, to fail (an examination), to bomb (when telling a joke), to drop, to go down, to come down, to fall (e.g. in status)
  • 滑らか 【なめらか】 smooth (of a surface), glassy, velvety, soft, smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.), fluent (speech), fluid, trouble-free, continuously differentiable

Readings

Japanese names:
かり、 なめり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua2, gu3
Korean:
hwal, gol

Spanish

  • deslizar
  • resbalar
  • deslizarse
  • resbalarse
  • suavidad

Portuguese

  • Escorregadio
  • deslizar
  • escorregar
  • falhar

French

  • glisser
  • glissant
  • rater
1088 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1468 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2663 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1512 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1490 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1857 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1267 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1341 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1392 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1229 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
809 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
472 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
603 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1298 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18032 Morohashi
658 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3282 New Nelson (John Haig)
1289 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1384 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1638 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a10.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
3712.7 Four corner code
1-19-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6ed1 Unicode hex code

24 strokes
Radical:
bird
Parts:
Variants:
heron
Kun:
さぎ
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2172 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 白鷺 【シラサギ】 heron with all-white plumage (incl. egrets), white heron
  • 烏鷺 【ウロ】 crows and herons, black and white (esp. go stones), go (game)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鷺 【さぎ】 heron (Ardeidae)
  • 鷺苔 【さぎごけ】 Miquel's mazus (species of small flowering plant, Mazus miquelii)
  • 白鷺 【しらさぎ】 heron with all-white plumage (incl. egrets), white heron
  • 五位鷺 【ごいさぎ】 black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), night heron

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lu4
Korean:
ro

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5369 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2993 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3621 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2524 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
47362 Morohashi
7006 New Nelson (John Haig)
2833 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2848 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11b13.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-13-11 SKIP code
6732.7 Four corner code
1-26-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9dfa Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
Kun:
くさくさ--ぐさ
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
967 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 草 【ソウ】 draft, rough copy, highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters), grass style
  • 草案 【ソウアン】 draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
  • 除草 【ジョソウ】 weeding
  • 起草 【キソウ】 drafting (e.g. a bill), drawing up

Kun reading compounds

  • 草 【くさ】 grass, weed, herb, thatch, ninja, marijuana, cannabis, not genuine, substandard, LOL, haha
  • 草刈り 【くさかり】 mowing, mower
  • 水草 【みずくさ】 water plant, aquatic plant, waterweed, hydrophyte
  • 若草 【わかくさ】 green grass, young (fresh) grass

Readings

Japanese names:
そ、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao3
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • hierba
  • planta

Portuguese

  • grama
  • erva daninha
  • ervas
  • pasto
  • escrever
  • esboçar

French

  • herbe
  • mauvaise herbe
  • plantes
  • pâturage
  • écrire
  • ébauche
106 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
57 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
162 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
705 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3939 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
118 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
865 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
934 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
249 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
249 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
567 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
652 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2813 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1953 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
229 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30945P Morohashi
2263 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5032 New Nelson (John Haig)
224 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
238 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
77 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1955 2001 Kanji
3k6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4440.6 Four corner code
1-33-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8349 Unicode hex code