Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
sweet
Parts:
tremendously, very, great, exceedingly
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1961 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 甚大 【ジンダイ】 very great, enormous, serious
  • 甚句 【ジンク】 jinku, lively Japanese folk song or dance tune
  • 激甚 【ゲキジン】 intense, violent, severe, vehement
  • 幸甚 【コウジン】 being extremely grateful, being much obliged, being very appreciative, being very happy

Kun reading compounds

  • 甚だ 【はなはだ】 very, greatly, extremely, exceedingly, highly, quite
  • 甚だしい 【はなはだしい】 extreme, excessive, terrible, intense, severe, serious, tremendous, heavy (damage)
  • 甚だしい 【はなはだしい】 extreme, excessive, terrible, intense, severe, serious, tremendous, heavy (damage)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shen2, she2, shen4
Korean:
sim

Spanish

  • tremendamente
  • en extremo
  • intenso
  • grave

Portuguese

  • tremendamente
  • muito
  • grande
  • excessivamente

French

  • formidable
  • très
  • terriblement
  • excessivement
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111 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
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1267 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1501 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
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1326 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3271 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
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21648 Morohashi
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1905 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1282 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1975 2001 Kanji
0a9.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
4471.1 Four corner code
1-31-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
751a Unicode hex code