Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
elementary, principle, naked, uncovered
Kun:
もと
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
660 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 素 【ソ】 plain, white silk, prime
  • 素案 【ソアン】 rough plan, draft
  • 栄養素 【エイヨウソ】 nutrient
  • 酵素 【コウソ】 enzyme
  • 素 【ス】 one's nature, one's feelings, oneself, plain, unadorned, undecorated, unadulterated, au naturel, mere, poor, exceedingly
  • 素顔 【スガオ】 face with no make-up, unpainted face, true face (of a country, celebrity, etc.), real face, true picture, real nature, sober face, sobriety
  • 空素 【カラス】 dealt hand containing only 1-point cards (scoring combination)
  • 鉤素 【ハリス】 snell (fishing), leader, trace, cast

Kun reading compounds

  • 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
  • 元より 【もとより】 from the beginning, from the first, all along, originally, of course, not to mention ..., not only ... but also ..., to say nothing of ...
  • 味の素 【あじのもと】 Ajinomoto, brand name of monosodium glutamate (MSG)
  • 味の素 【あじのもと】 Ajinomoto Co. Inc.

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
su4
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • materia prima
  • elemental
  • normal
  • usual

Portuguese

  • elementar
  • princípio
  • descoberto
  • nu

French

  • élément
  • principe
  • nu
  • découvert
658 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
759 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
737 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
717 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3511 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
797 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1623 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1707 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
271 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
271 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
636 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1506 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3108 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1590 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2171 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1546 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27300 Morohashi
2458 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4456 New Nelson (John Haig)
1532 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1652 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
500 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
716 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1441 2001 Kanji
6a4.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-6 SKIP code
5090.3 Four corner code
1-33-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d20 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
crude, simple, plain, docile
Kun:
ほうほおえのき
On:
ボク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1626 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 朴直 【ボクチョク】 simplicity, honesty, naivete
  • 朴訥 【ボクトツ】 unsophisticated, ruggedly honest, artless, unaffected, simple, naive
  • 純朴 【ジュンボク】 simple and honest, unsophisticated, simpleminded, naive, unspoiled
  • 厚朴 【コウボク】 Japanese bigleaf magnolia bark (used in Chinese medicine)

Kun reading compounds

  • 朴の木 【ほおのき】 magnolia (Magnolia obovata), Japanese big leaf magnolia
  • 朴 【ほお】 Japanese bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia obovata)
  • 朴の木 【ほおのき】 magnolia (Magnolia obovata), Japanese big leaf magnolia
  • 榎 【えのき】 Japanese hackberry (Celtis sinensis var. japonica), Chinese nettle tree, enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), winter mushroom, velvet shank, enokitake, enokidake

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
po4, piao2, pu3, pu2
Korean:
bag

Spanish

  • sencillo
  • simple
  • honesto
  • natural

Portuguese

  • simples
  • cru
  • planície
  • dócil

French

  • brut
  • simple
  • honnête
  • docile
1819 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1896 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2176 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1828 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1416 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
255 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1466 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1562 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1529 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1070 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1013 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
548 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
725 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
211 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14428 Morohashi
819 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2544 New Nelson (John Haig)
207 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
220 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1082 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1854 2001 Kanji
4a2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-2 SKIP code
4390.0 Four corner code
1-43-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6734 Unicode hex code