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On reading compounds

  • 螻蛄 【ケラ】 mole cricket (esp. the Oriental mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis), being penniless, being broke

Kun reading compounds

  • 螻蛄 【けら】 mole cricket (esp. the Oriental mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis), being penniless, being broke
  • 螻蛄芸 【けらげい】 being a jack of all trades and master of none
  • 虫けら 【むしけら】 worm, insect, insignificant person, pathetic person

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lou2
Korean:
ru

Spanish

Portuguese

French

33515 Morohashi
5375 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-11 SKIP code
5514.4 Four corner code
1-74-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
87bb Unicode hex code

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 螻蛄 【ケラ】 mole cricket (esp. the Oriental mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis), being penniless, being broke
  • 蝦蛄 【シャコ】 mantis shrimp (any marine crustacean of order Stomatopoda, esp. the species Oratosquilla oratoria), mantis crab, squilla

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu1, gu3
Korean:
go

Spanish

Portuguese

French

32960 Morohashi
5295 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
5416.0 Four corner code
1-73-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86c4 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
genius, years old, cubic shaku
On:
サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
1497 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 才 【サイ】 ability, gift, talent, aptitude, genius, sai, traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
  • 歳 【サイ】 ... years old, age (of) ...
  • 鬼才 【キサイ】 wizard, genius, remarkable talent, exceptional ability
  • 英才 【エイサイ】 genius, brilliance, unusual talent, gifted person, person of unusual talent

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cai2
Korean:
jae

Spanish

  • talento
  • capacidad
  • habilidad
  • años de edad

Portuguese

  • gênio
  • anos antigos

French

  • génie
  • "(x) ans" (âge)
  • shaku cubique (18,04 ml)
217 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
139 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
126 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
639 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
270 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
574 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
553 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
35 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
551 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
560 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
739 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
853 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4218 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2131 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2880 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
688 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11769 Morohashi
3410 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2059 New Nelson (John Haig)
681 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
736 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
85 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1447 2001 Kanji
0a3.27 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-3 SKIP code
5000.0 Four corner code
4020.0 Four corner code
1-26-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
624d Unicode hex code