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

9 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
sand
Kun:
すな
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1146 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 砂漠 【サバク】 desert
  • 砂糖 【サトウ】 sugar
  • 土砂 【ドシャ】 sediment, earth and sand
  • 流砂 【リュウサ】 quicksand
  • 砂岩 【サガン】 sandstone
  • 砂丘 【サキュウ】 sand dune, sand hill
  • 土砂 【ドシャ】 sediment, earth and sand
  • 流砂 【リュウサ】 quicksand

Kun reading compounds

  • 砂 【すな】 sand, grit
  • 砂浜 【すなはま】 sandy beach
  • 鳴き砂 【なきすな】 singing sand (which produces sound when stepped on), whistling sand, squeaking sand, barking sand
  • 猫砂 【ねこすな】 cat litter, kitty litter

Readings

Japanese names:
いさ、 ご
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sha1
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • arena
  • gravilla

Portuguese

  • Areia

French

  • sable
879 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
869 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1031 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3181 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1127 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
764 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
876 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1151 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1204 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1152 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1399 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1457 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
772 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1047 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
118 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24046 Morohashi
1133 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3992 New Nelson (John Haig)
117 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
122 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
882 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3360 2001 Kanji
5a4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-4 SKIP code
1962.0 Four corner code
1-26-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7802 Unicode hex code