Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
seashore, beach
Kun:
いそ
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1444 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 磯 【いそ】 (rocky) beach, seashore
  • 磯辺 【いそべ】 seashore, beach, food wrapped in nori
  • 築磯 【つきいそ】 artificial reef
  • 荒磯 【あらいそ】 reefy coast, windswept and wave-beaten shore

Readings

Japanese names:
し、 そ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji1
Korean:
gi

Spanish

  • playa rocosa

Portuguese

French

1518 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3221 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1920 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2916 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2177 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1587 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
839 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1147 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
24465 Morohashi
1242 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4049 New Nelson (John Haig)
2594 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2640 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3359 2001 Kanji
5a12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-12 SKIP code
1265.3 Four corner code
1-16-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
78ef Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 鷸蚌 【イツボウ】 a snipe and a clam, a snipe and a mussel
  • 鷸蚌の争い 【イツボウノアラソイ】 fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does), a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鷸 【しぎ】 sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)
  • 鷸駝鳥 【しぎだちょう】 tinamou (any bird of family Tinamidae)
  • 背高鴫 【せいたかしぎ】 black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus), stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae), avocet
  • 反嘴背高鷸 【そりはしせいたかしぎ】 pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu4
Korean:
hyul

Spanish

Portuguese

French

47359 Morohashi
7003 New Nelson (John Haig)
11b12.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-12-11 SKIP code
1722.7 Four corner code
1-83-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9df8 Unicode hex code