Jisho

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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 糟糠 【ソウコウ】 chaff and bran, plain food, worthless thing, trifle
  • 糟糠の妻 【ソウコウノツマ】 one's devoted wife, wife who has followed one through hard times, wife married in poverty
  • 物相 【モッソウ】 cylindrical box used to measure rice, shape for forming rice, single serving of rice (esp. as prison food)

Readings

Japanese names:
かす
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zao1
Korean:
jo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3487 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2632 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
27104 Morohashi
4423 New Nelson (John Haig)
2649 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2691 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6b11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-11 SKIP code
9596.6 Four corner code
1-33-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7cdf Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 糟糠 【ソウコウ】 chaff and bran, plain food, worthless thing, trifle
  • 粃糠 【ヒコウ】 bran, husks, furfur, branny scale

Kun reading compounds

  • 糠 【ぬか】 rice bran
  • 糠油 【ぬかあぶら】 rice-bran oil
  • 小糠 【こぬか】 rice bran
  • 米糠 【こめぬか】 rice bran

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kang1
Korean:
gang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3488 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2633 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
27105 Morohashi
4424 New Nelson (John Haig)
2652 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2694 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6b11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-11 SKIP code
9093.2 Four corner code
1-25-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7ce0 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:
wife, spouse
Kun:
つま
On:
サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
691 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 妻 【サイ】 one's wife
  • 妻子 【サイシ】 wife and children, wife
  • 先妻 【センサイ】 former wife, late wife
  • 後妻 【ゴサイ】 second wife

Kun reading compounds

  • 妻 【つま】 wife, garnish (esp. one served with sashimi), trimmings, accompaniment, side (remark)
  • 妻 【つま】 my dear, dear, honey
  • 駐妻 【ちゅうつま】 expat wife, wife of an expatriate employee
  • 我が妻 【わがつま】 my spouse (esp. used to refer to one's wife), my wife, my husband

Readings

Japanese names:
ずま、 め
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi1, qi4
Korean:
cheo

Spanish

  • esposa
  • mujer
  • esposa propia

Portuguese

  • esposa
  • cônjuge

French

  • épouse
  • femme
790 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
708 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
681 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
767 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1206 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
861 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
449 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
959 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
671 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
682 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
596 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
427 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3166 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1628 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2214 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1907 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6140 Morohashi
2558 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1200 New Nelson (John Haig)
1889 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2035 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
683 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1469 2001 Kanji
3e5.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-3 SKIP code
5040.4 Four corner code
1-26-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
59bb Unicode hex code