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肩

8 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
一 尸 戸 月
shoulder
Kun:
かた
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1215 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肩甲 【ケンコウ】 scapular
  • 肩高 【ケンコウ】 withers (height from ground to shoulder blades in animals)
  • 路肩 【ロカタ】 shoulder (of a road), berm
  • 強肩 【キョウケン】 strong throwing arm

Kun reading compounds

  • 肩 【かた】 shoulder
  • 肩書き 【かたがき】 title (e.g. Doctor, Professor, Lord), job title, position (in a company), degree, status, rank
  • 路肩 【ろかた】 shoulder (of a road), berm
  • 相肩 【あいかた】 partner, someone who shares one's load

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian1
Korean:
gyeon

Spanish

  • hombro

Portuguese

  • Ombro

French

  • épaule
1212 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1041 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1820 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1215 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
841 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1264 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1337 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1084 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1014 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2446 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1238 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1703 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1086 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29299X Morohashi
1947 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4776 New Nelson (John Haig)
1077 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1158 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1190 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3046 2001 Kanji
4m4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-7 SKIP code
3022.7 Four corner code
1-24-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80a9 Unicode hex code

荷

10 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
一 亅 化 口 艾
baggage, shoulder-pole load, bear (a burden), shoulder (a gun), load, cargo, freight
Kun:
に
On:
カ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1230 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 荷 【カ】 counter for loads (that can be carried on one's shoulders)
  • 加担 【カタン】 support, participation, assistance, complicity, conspiracy
  • 集荷 【シュウカ】 collection of cargo (esp. produce, etc.), cargo booking
  • 電荷 【デンカ】 electric charge, charge

Kun reading compounds

  • 荷 【に】 load, baggage, cargo, freight, goods, burden, responsibility
  • 荷台 【にだい】 (truck) load-carrying tray, (bicycle) luggage carrier, roof rack
  • 浮き荷 【うきに】 flotsam
  • 抜き荷 【ぬきに】 pilfered goods

Readings

Japanese names:
はす、 り
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
he2, he4
Korean:
ha

Spanish

  • bulto
  • carga
  • llevar una cargar
  • contador para bultos
  • equipaje

Portuguese

  • bagagem
  • pau para carregar no ombro
  • carregar (carga)
  • carregar (arma)
  • carga

French

  • bagages
  • balancier
  • porter (un fardeau)
  • épauler (fusil)
  • cargaison
  • chargement
  • fret
165 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
259 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
239 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1020 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3956 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
255 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
867 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1259 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
391 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
393 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
570 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
655 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2840 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1464 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1972 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1022 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31000P Morohashi
2282 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5059 New Nelson (John Haig)
1013 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1088 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
351 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1949 2001 Kanji
3k7.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-7 SKIP code
3-7-3 SKIP code
4422.1 Four corner code
1-18-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8377 Unicode hex code

下

3 strokes
Radical:
one 一
Parts:
一 ｜ 卜
Variants:
丅
below, down, descend, give, low, inferior
Kun:
した、 しも、 もと、 さ.げる、 さ.がる、 くだ.る、 くだ.り、 くだ.す、 -くだ.す、 くだ.さる、 お.ろす、 お.りる
On:
カ、 ゲ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
97 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 下 【カ】 under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of), during (war, occupation, etc.)
  • 下位 【カイ】 low rank, lower position, subordinate position, lower order (e.g. byte)
  • 陛下 【ヘイカ】 Your Majesty, His Majesty, Her Majesty
  • 最下 【サイカ】 the lowest, the worst
  • 下 【ゲ】 lowness (of degree, value, etc.), inferiority, second volume (of two), third volume (of three)
  • 下山 【ゲザン】 descending a mountain, descent
  • 高下 【コウゲ】 rise and fall (e.g. prices), fluctuation, difference (rank, grade, quality, etc.), variation
  • 帯下 【タイゲ】 leukorrhoea, leucorrhoea, leukorrhea, leucorrhea, mucous discharge from female genitals

Kun reading compounds

  • 下 【した】 below, down, under, younger (e.g. daughter), bottom, beneath, underneath, just after, right after, inferiority, one's inferior (i.e. one's junior), trade-in, preliminary, preparatory
  • 下請け 【したうけ】 subcontract, subcontractor (person or company)
  • 幕下 【まくした】 third highest division, wrestlers of the third highest division
  • 上下 【うえした】 top and bottom, up and down, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, upside-down
  • 下 【しも】 lower reaches (of a river), bottom, lower part, lower half (of the body, esp. the privates), feces (faeces), urine, menses, end, far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan), dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)
  • 下期 【しもき】 second half of the (fiscal) year
  • 風下 【かざしも】 leeward, lee, downwind
  • 裃 【かみしも】 samurai costume, old ceremonial costume, top and bottom, up and down, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends
  • 下 【もと】 under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.), under (a flag, the sun, etc.), beneath, with (e.g. one blow), on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...), in (e.g. the name of ...), (someone's) side, (someone's) location
  • 山元 【やまもと】 foot of a mountain, base of a mountain, mine, colliery, owner of a mountain, operator of a mine
  • お膝元 【おひざもと】 beside a nobleman, close aid (of a nobleman, etc.), place where a high ranking person resides, one's own city (of a shogun, lord, etc.), Imperial capital, Imperial court, (shogun's) headquarters, place under one's direct control, one's own turf, one's own backyard
  • 下げる 【さげる】 to hang, to suspend, to wear (e.g. decoration), to lower, to reduce, to bring down, to demote, to move back, to pull back, to clear (plates), to remove (food, etc. from table or altar), to keep on playing after one has formed a scoring combination with captured cards
  • 下がる 【さがる】 to come down, to go down, to fall, to drop, to sink, to get lower, to hang, to dangle, to move back, to step back, to withdraw, to retire, to deteriorate, to fall off, to be downgraded, to get closer to the present day, below, south of
  • 下る 【くだる】 to descend, to go down, to come down, to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.), to pass (of time), to surrender, to capitulate, to be less than, to be inferior to, to have the runs, to have diarrhea, to pass (in stool), to be discharged from the body, to depreciate oneself, to be humble
  • 下り 【くだり】 down-train, train heading toward the ending point of its route, down-slope, downward going, downbound (esp. away from Tokyo), downstream, downhill
  • 下り坂 【くだりざか】 downhill, downward slope, descent, decline, waning, ebb, (going) downhill
  • 下す 【くだす】 to make a decision, to draw a conclusion, to give a judgement, to hand down a verdict, to pass a sentence, to give an order, to let go down, to lower, to do oneself, to do by oneself, to beat, to defeat, to have loose bowels, to have diarrhea, to pass (in stool), to discharge from the body, to do in one go, to do to the end without stopping
  • 下さる 【くださる】 to give, to confer, to bestow, to kindly do for one, to oblige, to favour, to favor
  • 下ろす 【おろす】 to take down, to bring down, to lower (a hand, flag, shutter, etc.), to drop (an anchor, curtain, etc.), to let down (hair), to launch (a boat), to drop off (a passenger), to let off, to unload (goods, a truck, etc.), to offload, to discharge, to withdraw (money), to use for the first time, to wear for the first time, to cut off, to fillet (fish), to grate (e.g. radish), to prune (branches), to remove (someone from a position), to oust, to drop, to clear (the table), to remove (offerings from an altar), to pass down (e.g. old clothes), to hand down, to expel from the body (e.g. worms), to abort (a fetus), to invoke (a spirit), to call down
  • 降りる 【おりる】 to descend (e.g. a mountain), to go down, to come down, to alight (e.g. from bus), to get off, to disembark, to dismount, to step down, to retire, to give up, to quit, to fold, to be granted, to be issued, to be given, to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.), to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm)

Readings

Japanese names:
さか、 しと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xia4
Korean:
ha

Spanish

  • debajo
  • inferior
  • debajo de
  • parte inferior

Portuguese

  • baixo
  • abaixo
  • descende
  • inferior
  • sub
  • sob

French

  • au-dessous
  • descendre
  • bas
  • donner (vous me donnez)
  • inférieur
21 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
24 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
7 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
72 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
9 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
30 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
6 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
46 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
31 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
31 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
32 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
4 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4186 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2115 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2862 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
50 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14 Morohashi
3378 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
9 New Nelson (John Haig)
50 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
51 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
75 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
13 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3154 2001 Kanji
2m1.2 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
1023.0 Four corner code
1-18-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e0b Unicode hex code