Jisho

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Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 蜘蛛 【クモ】 spider

Kun reading compounds

  • 蜘蛛 【くも】 spider
  • くも貝 【くもがい】 spider conch (Lambis lambis)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhi1
Korean:
ji

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4158 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
33134 Morohashi
5342 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-8 SKIP code
5610.0 Four corner code
1-35-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8718 Unicode hex code

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 蛛形綱 【チュケイコウ】 Arachnida
  • 蛛形類 【チュケイルイ】 arachnids
  • 蛛形類 【チュケイルイ】 arachnids

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu1
Korean:
ju

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4131 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
33002 Morohashi
5307 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
5519.0 Four corner code
1-73-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86db Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
Variants:
monkey
Kun:
さる
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1772 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 猿人 【エンジン】 ape man
  • 猿害 【エンガイ】 damages inflicted by monkeys (on crops, etc.)
  • 人類猿 【ジンルイエン】 anthropoid ape
  • 孤猿 【コエン】 lone monkey, stray monkey

Kun reading compounds

  • 猿 【さる】 monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata), ape, non-human primate, sly person, idiot, hick, sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut), clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook, bathhouse prostitute
  • 猿尾 【さるお】 backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body
  • 木から落ちた猿 【きからおちたさる】 person who has lost something they used to rely on, a monkey fallen from the tree
  • 真猿 【まさる】 monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata)

Readings

Japanese names:
さ、 さわ、 ざる、 まし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • mono
  • simio

Portuguese

  • Macaco

French

  • singe
1028 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1717 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2905 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1529 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2062 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1584 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1690 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1865 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1308 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
824 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
479 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
612 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
410 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20584 Morohashi
669 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3600 New Nelson (John Haig)
403 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
430 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1648 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2965 2001 Kanji
3g10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
4423.2 Four corner code
1-17-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
733f Unicode hex code