Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
sign 示 (礻)
Parts:
company, firm, office, association, shrine
Kun:
やしろ
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
21 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 社 【シャ】 company, firm, office, association, society, (Shinto) shrine, regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour), counter for companies, shrines, etc., incorporated body, corporation, corporate juridical person
  • 社員 【シャイン】 company employee, member of a corporation, company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
  • 大社 【タイシャ】 grand shrine, famous shrine, Izumo Grand Shrine
  • 親会社 【オヤガイシャ】 parent company

Kun reading compounds

  • 社 【やしろ】 (Shinto) shrine
  • 大社 【たいしゃ】 grand shrine, famous shrine, Izumo Grand Shrine
  • 村のお社 【むらのおやしろ】 village shrine

Readings

Japanese names:
こそ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
she4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • compañía
  • asociación
  • sociedad
  • santuario shintoísta

Portuguese

  • companhia
  • firme
  • escritório
  • associação
  • templo

French

  • temple shinto
  • compagnie
  • firme
  • bureau
  • association
234 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
153 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
137 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
30 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3231 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
203 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
76 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
406 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
308 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
308 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
60 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1418 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1042 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
562 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
745 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1101 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24631P Morohashi
840 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4065 New Nelson (John Haig)
1092 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1173 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
82 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
145 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
672 2001 Kanji
4e3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
3421.0 Four corner code
1-28-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
793e Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
just so, this, right, justice
Kun:
これこのここ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1045 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 是 【ゼ】 righteousness, justice, right
  • 是正 【ゼセイ】 correction, revision, redressing, rectifying
  • 国是 【コクゼ】 national policy
  • 党是 【トウゼ】 party platform, party principles

Kun reading compounds

  • 此れ 【これ】 this, this one, this person, now, this point (in time), here, used to stress the subject of a sentence, I, me
  • 此れから 【これから】 from now on, after this, in the future, in future, from here, from this point
  • 此処 【ここ】 here, this place, this point, here, now, these past ... (e.g. three years), these last ..., the next ... (e.g. few days), these next ...

Readings

Japanese names:
すなお、 ただし、 つな、 ゆき、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
si

Spanish

  • correcto
  • justo
  • recto
  • esto
  • ni más ni menos

Portuguese

  • somente assim
  • isto
  • certo
  • justiça

French

  • comme il faut
  • ceci
  • juste
  • justice
822 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
910 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1404 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2120 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
786 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1407 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
947 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1591 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1698 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1670 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
972 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3090 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1578 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2157 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
395 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13859 Morohashi
2436 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2451 New Nelson (John Haig)
388 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
414 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1262 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3870 2001 Kanji
4c5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-5 SKIP code
6080.1 Four corner code
1-32-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
662f Unicode hex code