Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
grain
Parts:
private, I, me
Kun:
わたくしわたし
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N4
242 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 私 【シ】 private affairs, personal matter
  • 私案 【シアン】 private plan, one's own plan
  • 無私 【ムシ】 unselfish, selfless, disinterested
  • 滅私 【メッシ】 selflessness, being unselfish

Kun reading compounds

  • 私 【わたくし】 I, me, personal (affairs, etc.), private, selfishness, partiality, secrecy, confidentiality
  • 私立 【しりつ】 private (establishment)
  • 不肖私 【ふしょうわたくし】 I, me
  • 私 【わたし】 I, me
  • 私たち 【わたしたち】 we, us

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si1
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • yo
  • privado
  • secreto

Portuguese

  • particular
  • Eu
  • me

French

  • privé
  • je
  • moi
797 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
887 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
876 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
221 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3265 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
367 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
232 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
637 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
125 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
125 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
72 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1428 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1432 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
758 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1030 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
911 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24913 Morohashi
1115 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4124 New Nelson (John Haig)
902 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
968 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
17 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
852 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2271 2001 Kanji
5d2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
2293.0 Four corner code
1-27-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
79c1 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
graceful, gentle, pure
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1922 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 淑徳 【シュクトク】 womanly virtues
  • 淑女 【シュクジョ】 lady, (female) pervert
  • 貞淑 【テイシュク】 chastity, virtue, fidelity, feminine modesty
  • 私淑 【シシュク】 looking up to a person as one's own master or model, being influenced by a person through his works, idolizing

Kun reading compounds

  • 淑やか 【しとやか】 graceful, ladylike, modest, gentle, polite, quiet, well-mannered, refined (behavior)

Readings

Japanese names:
すく、 とし、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu2, shu1
Korean:
sug

Spanish

  • gracioso
  • gentil
  • puro

Portuguese

  • gracioso
  • puro
  • suave

French

  • gracieux
  • doux
  • pur
1368 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1857 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2592 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1487 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1478 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1335 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1668 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1783 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1767 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1210 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
639 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
388 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
483 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
728 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17634 Morohashi
527 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3191 New Nelson (John Haig)
721 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
778 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1456 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
367 2001 Kanji
3a8.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3714.0 Four corner code
1-29-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6dd1 Unicode hex code