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素

10 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
二 亠 土 小 幺 糸
elementary, principle, naked, uncovered
Kun:
もと
On:
ソ、 ス
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

飛

9 strokes
Radical:
fly 飛
Parts:
飛
fly, skip (pages), scatter
Kun:
と.ぶ、 と.ばす、 -と.ばす
On:
ヒ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
580 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 飛 【ヒ】 rook, fly ball
  • 飛球 【ヒキュウ】 fly (ball)
  • 犠飛 【ギヒ】 sacrifice fly
  • 中飛 【チュウヒ】 center fly, centre fly

Kun reading compounds

  • 飛ぶ 【とぶ】 to fly, to soar, to jump, to leap, to spring, to bound, to hop, to spatter, to scatter, to splash, to fly (e.g. of sparks), to hurry, to rush, to flee, to run off, to escape, to disappear, to vanish, to fade, to thin out, to break off, to come off, to fall off, to blow (of a fuse), to be sent out (of an order), to fly (of false rumours, catcalls, etc.), to come flying (of a punch, kick, etc.), to be missing (of a page, stitch, etc.), to skip, to jump (e.g. of a conversation)
  • 飛ぶ鳥 【とぶとり】 flying bird, soaring bird
  • 飛ばす 【とばす】 to let fly, to make fly, to send flying, to blow off (e.g. in the wind), to launch, to fire, to hurl, to shoot, to skip over, to leave out, to omit, to drop (e.g. a stitch), to run fast, to drive fast, to gallop, to spray, to splash, to spatter, to say without reservation, to call out (e.g. a jeer), to rattle off (e.g. a joke), to spread (e.g. a rumour), to circulate, to send out (a message), to issue (e.g. an appeal), to transfer (to a less important post), to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch), to demote, to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter), to get rid of, to burn off (alcohol), to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre), to do vigorously, to do roughly, to do energetically

Readings

Japanese names:
あす、 とび
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fei1
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • volar
  • omitir

Portuguese

  • voar
  • pular (páginas)
  • dispersar

French

  • voler
  • sauter (une page)
  • répandre
493 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
595 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
566 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
440 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5152 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
404 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1013 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1014 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
530 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
539 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
265 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1899 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4389 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2222 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2990 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1905 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44000 Morohashi
3572 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6672 New Nelson (John Haig)
1887 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2032 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
531 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3556 2001 Kanji
0a9.4 The Kanji Dictionary
4-9-1 SKIP code
3-3-6 SKIP code
1241.3 Four corner code
1-40-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98db Unicode hex code