Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
Variants:
bamboo grass
Kun:
しのささすず
On:
ゾウショウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1556 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 篠 【しの】 thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters), Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes), sliver (strand of loose fibers)
  • 篠笹 【しのざさ】 bamboo grass, bamboo
  • 笹 【ささ】 bamboo grass, generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
  • 笹竹 【ささたけ】 small bamboo
  • 篶 【すず】 Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan), shoots of this plant
  • 鈴懸 【すずかけ】 plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis), hemp overgarment worn by Shugendō practitioners

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao3
Korean:
so

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3440 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2691 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3376 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2372 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26328 Morohashi
4352 New Nelson (John Haig)
2639 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2682 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f11.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-11 SKIP code
8829.4 Four corner code
1-28-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7be0 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
cliff
Parts:
Variants:
meadow, original, primitive, field, plain, prairie, tundra, wilderness
Kun:
はら
On:
ゲン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
172 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 原 【ゲン】 original, primitive, primary, fundamental, proto-
  • 原案 【ゲンアン】 original plan, original bill, original motion, draft
  • 中原 【チュウゲン】 middle of a field, middle of a country, field of contest
  • 抗原 【コウゲン】 antigen

Kun reading compounds

  • 原 【はら】 field, plain, prairie, tundra, moor, wilderness
  • 原っぱ 【はらっぱ】 open field, empty lot, plain
  • 笹原 【ささはら】 field of bamboo grass
  • 関ヶ原 【せきがはら】 Sekigahara (battle site, 1600), decisive battle, critical battle

Readings

Japanese names:
た、 ばる、 ら、 わた、 わら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • origen
  • pradera
  • prado
  • campo

Portuguese

  • prado
  • original
  • primitivo
  • campo
  • planície
  • pradaria
  • tundra
  • sertão

French

  • pré
  • prairie
  • champ
  • original
  • primitif
  • toundra
  • désert (étendue sauvage)
205 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
119 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
107 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
132 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
825 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
202 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
388 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1231 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
136 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
136 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
405 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
260 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3733 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1910 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2593 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
136 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2973 Morohashi
3009 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
652 New Nelson (John Haig)
134 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
142 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
113 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
192 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3341 2001 Kanji
2p8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-8 SKIP code
7129.6 Four corner code
1-24-22 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
539f Unicode hex code