Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
grain
Parts:
earnings, work, earn money
Kun:
かせ.ぐ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1264 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 稼働 【カドウ】 operation (of a machine), running, working (and earning money), deployment (e.g. to a production environment), release, shipping
  • 稼ぎ 【カセギ】 earnings

Kun reading compounds

  • 稼ぐ 【かせぐ】 to earn (income), to make (money), to score (points, victory), to gain (time), to play (for time), to work hard (at one's job), to labor, to labour, to toil
  • 稼ぐに追いつく貧乏なし 【かせぐにおいつくびんぼうなし】 poverty is a stranger to industry, diligence is the mother of good fortune

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jia4
Korean:
ga

Spanish

  • ganancias
  • sueldo
  • trabajar
  • ganarse la vida

Portuguese

  • salário
  • trabalhar
  • ganhar dinheiro

French

  • gains
  • travail
  • gagner de l'argent
1055 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1882 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3301 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1589 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1750 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1874 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1232 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1444 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1572 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
831 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1136 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
902 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25217 Morohashi
1230 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4169 New Nelson (John Haig)
893 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
959 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1784 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2251 2001 Kanji
5d10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-10 SKIP code
2393.2 Four corner code
1-18-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a3c Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
dot
Parts:
lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
Kun:
ぬしおもあるじ
On:
シュシュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
95 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 主 【シュ】 (one's) master, (one's) employer, (one's) lord, leader (of a country, group, etc.), head, chief, Lord, main thing, chief part, first consideration, primary object, principal aim
  • 主 【シュウ】 (one's) master, (one's) employer, (one's) lord
  • 自主 【ジシュ】 independence, autonomy, self-reliance
  • 盟主 【メイシュ】 leader (of an alliance), leading power
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 法主 【ホッス】 high priest
  • 座主 【ザス】 temple's head priest
  • 主 【シュウ】 (one's) master, (one's) employer, (one's) lord
  • 主従 【シュウジュウ】 master and servant, lord and retainer, employer and employee
  • 男主 【オトコアルジ】 male head of a household, male owner, landlord, proprietor, male employer

Kun reading compounds

  • 主 【ぬし】 head (of a household, etc.), leader, master, owner, proprietor, proprietress, subject (of a rumour, etc.), doer (of a deed), guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers), long-time resident (or employee, etc.), husband, you
  • 馬主 【うまぬし】 owner of a horse (esp. racehorse), registered owner (of a racehorse)
  • 船主 【せんしゅ】 shipowner
  • 主 【おも】 chief, main, principal, important, main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen)
  • 主に 【おもに】 mainly, primarily, mostly, largely, chiefly
  • 主 【あるじ】 head (of a household), proprietor (of a store), proprietress, landlord, landlady, master (of a servant), entertaining someone as one's guest
  • 男主 【おとこあるじ】 male head of a household, male owner, landlord, proprietor, male employer
  • 女主 【おんなあるじ】 female owner, proprietress, landlady, female head of a household

Readings

Japanese names:
かず、 ず、 もん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu3
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • señor
  • jefe
  • dueño
  • patrón

Portuguese

  • senhor
  • chefe
  • mestre
  • coisa principal
  • principal

French

  • maître
  • seigneur
  • chef
  • principal
  • propriétaire
  • mari
237 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
315 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
299 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
91 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
285 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
49 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
106 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
196 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
155 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
155 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
70 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
19 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2437 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1231 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1696 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
272 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
100 Morohashi
1938 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
38 New Nelson (John Haig)
266 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
284 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
34 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
252 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
472 2001 Kanji
4f1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-4 SKIP code
4-5-2 SKIP code
2-2-3 SKIP code
0010.4 Four corner code
1-28-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e3b Unicode hex code