Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
西
drift, float (on liquid)
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1492 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 漂流 【ヒョウリュウ】 drifting, drift, being adrift
  • 漂白 【ヒョウハク】 blanching, bleaching
  • 漂々 【ヒョウヒョウ】 buoyantly, airily, with a light heart
  • 浮漂 【フヒョウ】 floating

Kun reading compounds

  • 漂う 【ただよう】 to drift, to float, to waft (e.g. a scent), to hang in the air, to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood), to wander, to walk around aimlessly, to be unsteady, to be unstable, to falter, to flinch, to wince, to live in unreliable circumstances

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
piao1, piao3, piao4
Korean:
pyo

Spanish

  • divagar
  • ir a la deriva
  • flotar

Portuguese

  • rumo
  • bóiar (em líquido)

French

  • dériver
  • flotter
1739 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1506 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2678 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1281 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1493 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2083 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
924 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
946 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1507 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1245 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
857 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
493 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
632 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1621 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18102 Morohashi
699 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3303 New Nelson (John Haig)
1607 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1733 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1714 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
341 2001 Kanji
3a11.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
3119.1 Four corner code
1-41-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f02 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
lose, error, fault, disadvantage, loss
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
447 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 失 【シツ】 loss (of something), disadvantage, mistake, error, failure, flaw, defect, error
  • 失業 【シツギョウ】 unemployment, losing one's job, becoming unemployed
  • 得失 【トクシツ】 advantages and disadvantages, plus and minuses
  • 敵失 【テキシツ】 error made by the enemy or opposing team

Kun reading compounds

  • 失う 【うしなう】 to lose, to miss (a chance, opportunity), to lose (a loved one), to be bereaved of, to concede (goals, points, etc.)
  • 失せる 【うせる】 to disappear, to vanish, to fade away, to go, to leave, to die

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi1
Korean:
sil

Spanish

  • pérdida
  • error
  • defecto
  • fallo
  • perder
  • malograr
  • errar

Portuguese

  • erro
  • falta
  • desvantagem
  • perda

French

  • perdre
  • erreur
  • faute
  • désavantage
418 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
529 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
501 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
523 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
178 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
238 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
447 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.13 Japanese for Busy People
311 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
311 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
594 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
413 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4325 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2189 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2947 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
853 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5844 Morohashi
3511 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1141 New Nelson (John Haig)
845 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
908 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
346 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
452 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2463 2001 Kanji
0a5.28 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-4 SKIP code
2503.0 Four corner code
1-28-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5931 Unicode hex code