Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
thread
Kun:
いと
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1488 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 糸 【シ】 thread, 0.0001, one ten-thousandth
  • 糸雨 【シウ】 drizzle, light rain, fine rain
  • 蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
  • 金糸 【キンシ】 gold thread

Kun reading compounds

  • 糸 【いと】 thread, yarn, string
  • 糸口 【いとぐち】 beginning, start, first step, clue, lead, hint, thread end
  • 横糸 【よこいと】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
  • 生糸 【きいと】 raw silk thread

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • hilo
  • hebra
  • cuerda

Portuguese

  • contexto

French

  • fil
83 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
75 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
27 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
699 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3492 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
113 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
807 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
720 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
242 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
242 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
409 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1503 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2703 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1379 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1866 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1345 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27221 Morohashi
2179 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4431 New Nelson (John Haig)
1333 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1431 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
58 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2741 2001 Kanji
6a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
4-6-4 SKIP code
2290.3 Four corner code
2090.3 Four corner code
1-27-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7cf8 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鋸歯 【キョシ】 teeth of a saw, serration
  • 鋸屑 【ノコクズ】 sawdust
  • 胴付鋸 【ドウツキノコ】 saw with a spine, tenon saw, back saw
  • 縦挽き鋸 【タテビキノコ】 ripsaw

Kun reading compounds

  • 鋸 【のこぎり】 saw, musical saw
  • 鋸鱝 【のこぎりえい】 sawfish (Pristidae spp.)
  • 胴付鋸 【どうつきのこ】 saw with a spine, tenon saw, back saw
  • 縦挽き鋸 【たてびきのこ】 ripsaw
  • 鋸 【のこぎり】 saw, musical saw
  • 鋸鱝 【のこぎりえい】 sawfish (Pristidae spp.)
  • 胴付鋸 【どうつきのこぎり】 saw with a spine, tenon saw, back saw
  • 回し引き鋸 【まわしびきのこぎり】 bracket saw, sabre saw, saber saw

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ju4, ju1
Korean:
geo

Spanish

  • sierra (para madera o metal)

Portuguese

French

4878 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2522 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2184 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1552 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
40505 Morohashi
6297 New Nelson (John Haig)
2759 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2782 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8a8.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-8 SKIP code
8716.4 Four corner code
1-21-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
92f8 Unicode hex code