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

16 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
song, sing, ballad, noh chanting
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1580 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 謡曲 【ヨウキョク】 noh song
  • 民謡 【ミンヨウ】 folk song, popular song
  • 歌謡 【カヨウ】 song, ballad

Kun reading compounds

  • 謡 【うたい】 noh chanting, recitation
  • 謡物 【うたいもの】 utai (noh chant) piece for recitation
  • 地謡 【じうたい】 noh chorus
  • 素謡 【すうたい】 bare noh chanting, vocal-only noh theater performance, with no dancing or instruments, unaccompanied utai
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao2
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • canto del teatro Noh
  • canto melódico
  • cantar

Portuguese

  • Canto de teatro noh

French

  • chanter
  • chant Noh
1883 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1531 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4410 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1071 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1768 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2642 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1647 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1760 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1788 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1704 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2011 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1071 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1445 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1987 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35779P Morohashi
1597 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5666 New Nelson (John Haig)
1968 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2119 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1854 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3076 2001 Kanji
7a9.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-9 SKIP code
0267.2 Four corner code
1-45-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8b21 Unicode hex code