Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 煤煙 【バイエン】 dirty smoke, soot and smoke
  • 煤塵 【バイジン】 dust and soot, particulate matter
  • 松煤 【ショウバイ】 soot of burnt pine

Kun reading compounds

  • 煤 【すす】 soot
  • 煤色 【すすいろ】 color of soot (colour)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei2
Korean:
mae

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2781 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
935 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
19220 Morohashi
3452 New Nelson (John Haig)
2541 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2600 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4d9.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
9489.4 Four corner code
1-39-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7164 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
sweep, brush
Kun:
は.く
On:
ソウシュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1255 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 掃除 【ソウジ】 cleaning, sweeping, dusting, scrubbing
  • 掃海 【ソウカイ】 sweeping the sea for mines, dragging for mines
  • 特殊清掃 【トクシュセイソウ】 special cleaning and disinfection (esp. after an accident or death), biohazard cleanup, crime scene cleanup

Kun reading compounds

  • 掃く 【はく】 to sweep, to brush, to clean, to gather silkworms

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sao3, sao4
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • cepillo
  • barrer
  • arrastrar con todo

Portuguese

  • varrer
  • escovar

French

  • balayer
  • brosser
  • nettoyer
1519 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1235 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1945 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
947 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
574 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1319 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1080 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1128 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
957 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
907 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
611 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
372 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
464 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1160 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12237P Morohashi
503 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2207 New Nelson (John Haig)
1152 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1235 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1442 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1344 2001 Kanji
3c8.22 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
5702.7 Four corner code
1-33-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6383 Unicode hex code