Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
sign 示 (礻)
Parts:
celebrate, congratulate
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1184 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 祝 【シュク】 public holiday, celebration (of)
  • 祝賀 【シュクガ】 celebration, congratulations
  • 慶祝 【ケイシュク】 congratulation, celebration
  • 奉祝 【ホウシュク】 celebration
  • 祝儀 【シュウギ】 celebration, celebratory event, wedding ceremony, congratulatory gift, tip, gratuity
  • 祝儀袋 【シュウギブクロ】 special envelope for monetary gifts

Kun reading compounds

  • 祝う 【いわう】 to celebrate, to congratulate, to observe (a festival), to present (a gift) in celebration, to drink in celebration, to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.), to pray for

Readings

Japanese names:
のり、 ほぎ、 ゆわい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu4
Korean:
chug, ju

Spanish

  • celebración
  • felicitación
  • celebrar
  • felicitar

Portuguese

  • celebre
  • congratula

French

  • célébrer
  • féliciter
635 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
533 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
706 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
984 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3244 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
756 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
773 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
851 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
851 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
870 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1018 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1421 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1144 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
616 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
822 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1098 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24672P Morohashi
913 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4085 New Nelson (John Haig)
1089 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1170 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
526 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
657 2001 Kanji
4e5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-5 SKIP code
3621.0 Four corner code
1-29-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
795d Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xing1
Korean:
seong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1547 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
709 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
533 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
10868 Morohashi
1902 New Nelson (John Haig)
4k9.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
9601.4 Four corner code
1-56-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
60fa Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
legs
Parts:
beginning, former time, origin
Kun:
もと
On:
ゲンガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 元 【ゲン】 unknown (e.g. in an equation), element (of a set), yuan (monetary unit of China), New Taiwan dollar, Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368), Yüan dynasty, Mongol dynasty
  • 原価 【ゲンカ】 cost price
  • 中元 【チュウゲン】 15th day of the 7th lunar month, (last day of) Bon lantern festival, mid-year gift, summer gift, Bon Festival gifts
  • 抗原 【コウゲン】 antigen
  • 元祖 【ガンソ】 originator, pioneer, inventor, founder, progenitor, primogenitor, founder of a family line
  • 元日 【ガンジツ】 New Year's Day

Kun reading compounds

  • 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
  • 元 【もと】 former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before
  • 家元 【いえもと】 head of a school (of music, dance), head family of a school
  • 胸元 【むなもと】 breast, chest, pit of the stomach, solar plexus, epigastrium

Readings

Japanese names:
ちか、 はじめ、 はる、 ゆき、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • comienzo
  • principio
  • origen
  • jefe

Portuguese

  • começo
  • tempo anterior
  • origem

French

  • commencement
  • origine
  • ancien temps
68 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
117 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
106 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
328 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
275 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
106 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
121 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
60 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
137 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
137 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
245 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
141 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2428 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1226 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1690 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
59 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1340 Morohashi
1929 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
343 New Nelson (John Haig)
59 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
63 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
408 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
89 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
0a4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-3 SKIP code
1021.1 Four corner code
1-24-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5143 Unicode hex code