Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
meat
Kun:
しし
On:
ニク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
986 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肉 【ニク】 flesh, meat, flesh (of a fruit), pulp, the physical body (as opposed to the spirit), flesh, thickness, content, substance, flesh, ink pad
  • 肉親 【ニクシン】 blood relationship, blood relative
  • 食肉 【ショクニク】 meat (for consumption)
  • 中肉 【チュウニク】 medium build, meat of medium quality

Kun reading compounds

  • 肉 【しし】 flesh (esp. of an animal), meat
  • 肉合い 【ししあい】 fleshiness, plumpness
  • 鹿 【かのしし】 venison, deer
  • 脯 【ほしし】 dried meat, jerky

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
rou4
Korean:
yug, yu

Spanish

  • carne

Portuguese

  • carne

French

  • chair
  • viande
297 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
209 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
365 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
779 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3724 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
533 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
241 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
223 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
223 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
561 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1010 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3966 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2042 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2756 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1031 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29236 Morohashi
3200 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4753 New Nelson (John Haig)
1022 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1098 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
134 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1653 2001 Kanji
2a4.20 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-2 SKIP code
4-6-4 SKIP code
3-2-4 SKIP code
4022.7 Four corner code
1-38-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8089 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Japanese Judas-tree, cinnamon tree
Kun:
かつら
On:
ケイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1651 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 桂 【ケイ】 knight
  • 桂庵 【ケイアン】 agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period), mediator, go-between, flattery, flatterer, Keian era (1648.2.15-1652.9.18)
  • 月桂 【ゲッケイ】 bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), bay tree, sweet bay, laurel tree, moon, moonlight, katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends)
  • 肉桂 【ニッケイ】 cinnamon, cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum sieboldii)

Kun reading compounds

  • 桂 【かつら】 katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum), Japanese Judas tree
  • 桂男 【かつらおとこ】 man in the moon
  • 広葉桂 【ひろはかつら】 Cercidiphyllum magnificum (species of katsura)

Readings

Japanese names:
かつ、 よし、 か
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gui4
Korean:
gye

Spanish

  • árbol aromático
  • árbol de judas

Portuguese

French

  • gainier japonais
  • arbre de Judée japonais
1158 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2253 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1929 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1102 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2109 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1163 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
629 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
837 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
202 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14755 Morohashi
928 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2659 New Nelson (John Haig)
198 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
210 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1872 2001 Kanji
4a6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
4491.4 Four corner code
1-23-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6842 Unicode hex code