Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:

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On reading compounds

  • 過酷 【カコク】 severe, harsh, hard, cruel, rigorous
  • 苛虐 【カギャク】 cruel treatment

Kun reading compounds

  • 苛める 【いじめる】 to ill-treat, to bully, to torment, to pick on, to tease, to be cruel to, to persecute, to be tough on (e.g. one's body), to treat harshly
  • 苛む 【さいなむ】 to torment, to torture, to afflict, to harrow
  • 苛立つ 【いらだつ】 to be irritated, to get annoyed, to lose one's patience

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ke1
Korean:
ga

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3925 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
394 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2786 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1929 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30785X Morohashi
5006 New Nelson (John Haig)
2373 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.30 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2-4-5 SKIP code
4462.1 Four corner code
1-18-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82db Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 斂葬 【レンソウ】 interment, burial
  • 収斂 【シュウレン】 astringency, constriction, contraction, collecting (e.g. opinions), putting together, summarizing, collection (of taxes), convergence (of light), convergence, convergence
  • 聚斂 【シュウレン】 (levying of a) heavy taxation

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lian4, lian3
Korean:
ryeom

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2426 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
13407 Morohashi
2362 New Nelson (John Haig)
4i13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-13-4 SKIP code
8884.0 Four corner code
1-58-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6582 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 誅 【チュウ】 death penalty
  • 誅求 【チュウキュウ】 oppressive exaction (of taxes, etc.)
  • 筆誅 【ヒッチュウ】 written denunciation
  • 天誅 【テンチュウ】 heaven's punishment, divine punishment, well-deserved punishment, just punishment
  • 誅 【チュウ】 death penalty
  • 誅求 【チュウキュウ】 oppressive exaction (of taxes, etc.)

Kun reading compounds

  • 誅する 【ちゅうする】 to put to death (e.g. a sinner, traitor, etc.), to punish someone with death

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu1
Korean:
ju

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4351 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
35472 Morohashi
5599 New Nelson (John Haig)
7a6.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-6 SKIP code
0569.0 Four corner code
1-75-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a85 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
request, want, wish for, require, demand
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
220 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 求職 【キュウショク】 job hunting, seeking employment
  • 求刑 【キュウケイ】 recommended sentence, prosecution's demand for punishment
  • 身代金要求 【ミノシロキンヨウキュウ】 ransom demand
  • 希求 【キキュウ】 longing, great desire, aspiration
  • 求道 【キュウドウ】 seeking after truth
  • 求道者 【キュウドウシャ】 seeker after truth, one who seeks the way
  • 勤求 【ゴング】 inquiring the Buddha way
  • 欣求 【ゴング】 earnest aspiration (to go to paradise)

Kun reading compounds

  • 求める 【もとめる】 to want, to wish for, to request, to demand, to require, to ask for, to seek, to search for, to look for, to pursue (pleasure), to hunt (a job), to find (a solution), to purchase, to buy

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiu2
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • petición
  • demanda
  • buscar
  • pedir
  • demandar
  • reclamar
  • desear

Portuguese

  • solicitação
  • desejar
  • deseja para
  • requer
  • demanda

French

  • réclamer
  • demander
  • vouloir
  • désirer
583 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
478 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
455 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
332 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
137 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
584 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
664 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
537 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
724 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
737 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
933 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1155 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4365 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2210 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2974 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
943 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17105 Morohashi
3550 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3036 New Nelson (John Haig)
934 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1004 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
297 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
478 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1442 2001 Kanji
2b5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
4313.2 Four corner code
1-21-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c42 Unicode hex code