Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
vertical, length, height, self-indulgent, wayward
Kun:
たて
On:
ジュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1258 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 縦断 【ジュウダン】 running through (north-south), cutting across, travelling across, cutting vertically, sectioning longitudinally
  • 縦横 【ジュウオウ】 length and width, length and breadth, lengthwise and crosswise, vertical and horizontal, the four cardinal points, every direction, all directions, as one wishes, as one pleases, at will
  • 無線操縦 【ムセンソウジュウ】 radio-controlled (plane)
  • 自動操縦 【ジドウソウジュウ】 automatic pilot, autopilot, automatic control

Kun reading compounds

  • 縦 【たて】 the vertical, height, front-to-back, length, north-to-south, vertical (relationship), hierarchy, (weaving) warp
  • 縦書き 【たてがき】 writing vertically, vertical writing

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zong4
Korean:
jong, chong

Spanish

  • vertical
  • hacer según se ha pensado

Portuguese

  • vertical
  • comprimento
  • altura
  • elevado pessoa indulgente
  • rebelde

French

  • vertical
  • longueur
  • hauteur
  • égoïste
  • entêté
903 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
892 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1383 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3597 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1559 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1644 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1483 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1580 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1300 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1556 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1783 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
952 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1286 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1350 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27804P Morohashi
1408 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4571 New Nelson (John Haig)
1338 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1436 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
994 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2770 2001 Kanji
6a10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-10 SKIP code
2898.1 Four corner code
1-29-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e26 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
read
Kun:
よ.む-よ.み
On:
ドクトクトウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
  • 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
  • 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
  • 読点 【トウテン】 comma
  • 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
  • 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)

Kun reading compounds

  • 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

Readings

Japanese names:
よみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du2, dou4
Korean:
dog, du

Spanish

  • leer

Portuguese

  • leia

French

  • lire
123 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
206 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
189 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
484 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4375 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
55 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
88 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2142 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
244 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
244 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
180 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1689 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1943 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1038 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
354 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35580P Morohashi
1541 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5629 New Nelson (John Haig)
348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
372 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
323 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
233 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
7a7.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0461.2 Four corner code
1-38-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8aad Unicode hex code