Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
arrow
Parts:
dart, arrow
Kun:
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N1
1294 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 矢状 【シジョウ】 sagittal
  • 矢状縫合 【シジョウホウゴウ】 sagittal suture
  • 弓矢 【ユミヤ】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 嚆矢 【コウシ】 whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle, start (e.g. of a movement), beginning, dawn

Kun reading compounds

  • 矢 【や】 arrow, wedge, chock
  • 矢先 【やさき】 arrowhead, target of a flying arrow, brunt (of an attack), the very moment (when), the point (of doing)
  • 弓矢 【ゆみや】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 洗い矢 【あらいや】 ramrod, cleaning rod

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi3
Korean:
si

Spanish

  • flecha

Portuguese

  • dardo
  • flecha

French

  • fléchette
  • flèche
145 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
981 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1092 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3168 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1335 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1566 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
215 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
213 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
213 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
593 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1393 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2502 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1267 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1733 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1228 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23929 Morohashi
2009 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3976 New Nelson (John Haig)
1220 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1305 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
110 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2363 2001 Kanji
0a5.19 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-3 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
8043.0 Four corner code
1-44-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
77e2 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
pillow
Kun:
まくら
On:
チンシン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2084 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 枕籍 【チンセキ】 bedding, bed, to sleep together in the same bed, to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow, to sleep together using books as a pillow
  • 枕状溶岩 【マクラジョウヨウガン】 pillow lava
  • 開枕 【カイチン】 bringing out the pillows and futon (in Zen Buddhism), sleeping
  • 陶枕 【トウチン】 porcelain pillow (used in summer)

Kun reading compounds

  • 枕 【まくら】 pillow, bolster, introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story), lead-in
  • 枕絵 【まくらえ】 erotic picture
  • 新枕 【にいまくら】 bridal bed
  • 高枕 【たかまくら】 high pillow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhen3, zhen4
Korean:
chim

Spanish

  • almohada
  • prefacio a una frase o charla

Portuguese

French

2209 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1900 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
627 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
965 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1064 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
759 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14546 Morohashi
2589 New Nelson (John Haig)
2472 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2034 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1857 2001 Kanji
4a4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4491.2 Four corner code
1-43-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6795 Unicode hex code