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

4 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
hand
Kun:
て--てた-
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
60 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 手術 【シュジュツ】 surgery, operation, procedure, skill with one's hands, sleight of hand
  • 手記 【シュキ】 note, memorandum, memo, memoirs, personal account
  • 二塁手 【ニルイシュ】 second baseman
  • 名手 【メイシュ】 master, expert, brilliant move (in go, shogi, etc.), excellent move
  • 交際上手 【コウサイジョウズ】 good at socializing, sociability, being a good mixer
  • 処世上手 【ショセイジョウズ】 knowing how to get on in the world, knowing the secret of success in life

Kun reading compounds

  • 手 【て】 hand, arm, forepaw, foreleg, handle, hand, worker, help, trouble, care, effort, means, way, trick, move, technique, workmanship, hand, handwriting, kind, type, sort, one's hands, one's possession, ability to cope, hand (of cards), direction, move (in go, shogi, etc.)
  • 手足 【てあし】 hands and feet, limbs, person at one's beck and call, person at hand, reliable worker
  • 逆手 【ぎゃくて】 underhand grip, backhand grip (e.g. in tennis), unexpected twist, turning the tables (on an opponent)
  • 担い手 【にないて】 bearer, carrier, person bearing responsibility, person in charge, supporter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • mano

Portuguese

  • mão

French

  • main
28 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
35 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
32 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
42 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1827 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
37 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
54 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
118 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.19 Japanese for Busy People
57 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
57 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
170 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
847 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4267 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2155 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2907 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
644 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11768 Morohashi
3456 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2060 New Nelson (John Haig)
637 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
687 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
57 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
30 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2247 2001 Kanji
3c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
2-1-3 SKIP code
2050.0 Four corner code
1-28-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
624b Unicode hex code