| 617 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 885 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 688 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 2017 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 57 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 880 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1715 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1877 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 2042 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1866 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1606 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3107 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1589 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2170 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 529 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 32869 | Morohashi |
| 2457 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5290 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 523 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 562 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 901 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
2272 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
- 蚕業 【サンギョウ】 sericulture
- 養蚕 【ヨウサン】 sericulture, silkworm culture, silkworm raising
- 秋蚕 【シュウサン】 autumn silkworms, fall silkworms
Kun reading compounds
- 蚕 【かいこ】 silkworm (Bombyx mori)
- 蚕蛾 【かいこが】 silkworm moth, silk moth (Bombyx mori)
- 三眠蚕 【さんみんかいこ】 three-molt silkworm
- 蚕糞 【こくそ】 silkworm droppings
- 蚕玉 【こだま】 guardian deity of silkworms
- 三眠蚕 【さんみんかいこ】 three-molt silkworm
- 桑蚕 【くわこ】 wild silkworm moth (Bombyx mandarina)
Readings
- Korean:
- cheon, jam
Spanish
- gusano de seda
Portuguese
- bicho-da-seda
French
- ver à soie
| 3171 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6d4.8 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-4-6 | SKIP code |
| 1013.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-29 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8695 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
559 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 紙 【シ】 newspaper
- 紙上 【シジョウ】 on paper, in the newspapers, in a letter
- 原稿用紙 【ゲンコウヨウシ】 Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character), manuscript paper
- 製紙 【セイシ】 papermaking, paper manufacture
Kun reading compounds
- 紙 【かみ】 paper
- 紙芝居 【かみしばい】 kamishibai, storytelling with pictures, form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
- インディア紙 【インディアかみ】 India paper
- 頸上 【くびかみ】 neckband, round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing)
Readings
- Korean:
- ji
Spanish
- papel
- periódico
Portuguese
- Papel
French
- papier
| 85 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 148 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 132 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 501 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3510 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 362 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 236 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1953 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.2 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 180 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 180 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 243 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1517 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1654 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 879 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1197 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1846 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 27293 | Morohashi |
| 1302 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4455 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1829 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1971 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 456 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 194 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2756 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6a4.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-6-4 | SKIP code |
| 2294.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-70 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7d19 | Unicode hex code |