Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
strangle, constrict, wring
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1288 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絞 【コウ】 death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)
  • 絞殺 【コウサツ】 strangulation, strangling

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize
  • 絞める 【しめる】 to strangle, to constrict
  • 絞まる 【しまる】 to be strangled, to be constricted

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao3, jia3
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • constreñir
  • contraer
  • torcer
  • estrujar

Portuguese

  • estrangular
  • apertar
  • torcer

French

  • étrangler
  • serrer
  • tordre
1261 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1825 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3535 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1394 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1630 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1452 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1565 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1533 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1707 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
913 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1236 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1360 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27421 Morohashi
1349 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4485 New Nelson (John Haig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1448 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1576 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2766 2001 Kanji
6a6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
2094.8 Four corner code
1-25-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d5e Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
container, open mouth
Parts:
exit, leave, go out, come out, put out, protrude
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
13 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 出 【シュツ】 coming out, emerging, being born into (a certain family), being a native of (a particular place)
  • 出演 【シュツエン】 appearance (in a film, play, TV show, etc.), performance
  • 輩出 【ハイシュツ】 producing (people) in great numbers, appearing one after the other
  • 歳出 【サイシュツ】 annual expenditure
  • 出納 【スイトウ】 receipts and expenditure (disbursements)
  • 出納簿 【スイトウボ】 cashbook

Kun reading compounds

  • 出る 【でる】 to leave, to exit, to go out, to come out, to get out, to leave (on a journey), to depart, to start out, to set out, to move forward, to come to, to get to, to lead to, to reach, to appear, to come out, to emerge, to surface, to come forth, to turn up, to be found, to be detected, to be discovered, to be exposed, to show, to be exhibited, to be on display, to appear (in print), to be published, to be announced, to be issued, to be listed, to come out, to attend, to participate, to take part, to enter (an event), to play in, to perform, to be stated, to be expressed, to come up, to be brought up, to be raised, to sell, to exceed, to go over, to stick out, to protrude, to break out, to occur, to start, to originate, to be produced, to come from, to be derived from, to be given, to get, to receive, to be offered, to be provided, to be presented, to be submitted, to be handed in, to be turned in, to be paid, to answer (phone, door, etc.), to get, to assume (an attitude), to act, to behave, to pick up (speed, etc.), to gain, to flow (e.g. tears), to run, to bleed, to graduate, to ejaculate, to cum
  • 出る杭は打たれる 【でるくいはうたれる】 the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, people that stick out too much get punished, tall trees catch much wind, people that excel at something become disliked
  • 出す 【だす】 to take out, to get out, to put out, to reveal, to show, to submit (e.g. thesis), to turn in, to publish, to make public, to send (e.g. letter), to produce (a sound), to start (fire), to serve (food), ... out (e.g. to jump out, to carry out), to begin ..., to start to ..., to burst into ...
  • 出すことは舌を出すも嫌い 【だすことはしたをだすもきらい】 being exceptionally stingy
  • 出でる 【いでる】 to go, to come

Readings

Japanese names:
いず、 いづ、 いで、 じ、 すっ、 すつ、 てん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chu1
Korean:
chul, chu

Spanish

  • salir
  • dejar
  • sacar

Portuguese

  • saída
  • deixa

French

  • sortir
  • quitter
  • présence
90 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
29 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
34 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
17 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
97 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
40 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
21 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
523 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
53 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
53 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
185 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
174 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4310 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2180 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2934 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
774 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1811 Morohashi
3498 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
445 New Nelson (John Haig)
767 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
829 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
41 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1276 2001 Kanji
0a5.22 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
2277.2 Four corner code
1-29-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51fa Unicode hex code