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

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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

12 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
notch of an arrow, ought, must, should be, expected
Kun:
はずやはず
On:
カツ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

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Kun reading compounds

  • 筈 【はず】 should (be), bound (to be), expected (to be), must (be), nock (of a bow), nock (of an arrow), nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger), wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
  • 筈緒 【はずお】 hemp rope fastened from the bow of a Japanese ship to the tip of the mast
  • 末弭 【うらはず】 top knock (of a bow)
  • 本弭 【もとはず】 bottom knock (of a bow)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gua1
Korean:
gwal

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3387 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3318 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2336 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
25990 Morohashi
4277 New Nelson (John Haig)
2646 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2688 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f6.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-6 SKIP code
8860.4 Four corner code
1-40-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7b48 Unicode hex code