Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
practice, gloss, train, drill, polish, refine
Kun:
ね.るね.り
On:
レン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
788 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 練習 【レンシュウ】 practice, training, drill, (an) exercise, workout
  • 練達 【レンタツ】 expert(ise), skill, dexterity
  • 修練 【シュウレン】 training, drill, practice, practising, discipline
  • 水練 【スイレン】 swimming practice

Kun reading compounds

  • 練る 【ねる】 to knead, to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame), to polish (a plan, etc.), to refine, to elaborate, to work out, to train, to drill, to exercise, to gloss (silk), to soften, to degum, to tan (leather), to temper (steel), to walk in procession, to parade, to march
  • 練り 【ねり】 kneading, gloss, tempering, paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste), parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals
  • 練り上げる 【ねりあげる】 to knead well, to polish, to refine

Readings

Japanese names:
ねり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lian4
Korean:
ryeon

Spanish

  • práctica
  • entrenamiento
  • ablandar
  • ejercitar

Portuguese

  • prática
  • brilho
  • treinar
  • exercitar
  • polir
  • refinar

French

  • pratiquer
  • lustrer
  • s'exercer
  • s'entraîner
  • perfectionner
  • peaufiner
539 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
438 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
608 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
704 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3565 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
482 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
828 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2527 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
743 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
756 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
296 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1547 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1738 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
931 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1256 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1355 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27631P Morohashi
1375 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4530 New Nelson (John Haig)
1343 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1443 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
431 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2764 2001 Kanji
6a8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-8 SKIP code
2599.6 Four corner code
1-46-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7df4 Unicode hex code

14 strokes (also 15)
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
food, bait, prey, tempting profit
Kun:
えばえさもち
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2277 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 採餌 【サイジ】 feeding (by animals), food getting
  • 好餌 【コウジ】 bait, decoy, lure, easy prey, easy victim, sucker

Kun reading compounds

  • 餌 【えさ】 (animal) feed, fodder, pet food, bait, lure, enticement
  • 餌場 【えさば】 feeding ground
  • 撒き餌 【まきえ】 scattered animal feed, ground bait
  • 毒餌 【どくえ】 poisonous bait
  • 餌 【えさ】 (animal) feed, fodder, pet food, bait, lure, enticement
  • 餌場 【えさば】 feeding ground
  • 釣り餌 【つりえ】 bait (for fishing)
  • 練り餌 【ねりえ】 paste bird feed, paste fishing bait

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
er3
Korean:
i

Spanish

  • comida
  • comida para animales
  • cebo
  • presa
  • tentación

Portuguese

French

5167 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
776 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2257 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1597 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
44146X Morohashi
6690 New Nelson (John Haig)
2797 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1588 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8b6.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-6 SKIP code
8174.0 Four corner code
8172.0 Four corner code
1-17-34 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
990c Unicode hex code