Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
blood
Parts:
blood
Kun:
On:
ケツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
832 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 血液 【ケツエキ】 blood
  • 血圧 【ケツアツ】 blood pressure
  • 脳出血 【ノウシュッケツ】 cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral haemorrhage
  • 熱血 【ネッケツ】 hot blood, warm blood, zeal, fervor, fervour, ardor, ardour, enthusiasm

Kun reading compounds

  • 血 【ち】 blood, blood, ancestry, lineage, stock, (the) blood, feelings, passions
  • 血筋 【ちすじ】 lineage, stock, descent, strain, blood relationship
  • 黄色い血 【きいろいち】 blood low in blood cells (caused by frequent blood donations), yellow blood
  • 生き血 【いきち】 lifeblood

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie3, xue4
Korean:
hyeol

Spanish

  • sangre
  • consanguinidad

Portuguese

  • sangue

French

  • sang
389 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
288 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
270 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
637 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4205 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
344 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
876 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
337 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
789 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
803 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
928 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1611 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4339 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2196 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2955 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1460 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
33964 Morohashi
3526 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5411 New Nelson (John Haig)
1448 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1556 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
489 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
265 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
874 2001 Kanji
5h1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-2 SKIP code
2710.0 Four corner code
1-23-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8840 Unicode hex code

17 strokes (also 19)
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 係争 【ケイソウ】 dispute, contention, conflict, controversy
  • 係留 【ケイリュウ】 mooring, anchorage
  • 連係 【レンケイ】 connection, linking, linkage, link, liaison, contact, coordination

Kun reading compounds

  • 繋ぐ 【つなぐ】 to connect, to link together, to tie, to fasten, to restrain, to maintain, to preserve, to keep, to transfer (phone call), to put a person through, to hedge, to buy or sell forward

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi4, ji4
Korean:
gye

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3618 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2959 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3564 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
27940X Morohashi
2902 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4573 New Nelson (John Haig)
2655 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2697 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6a13.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-11-6 SKIP code
2-13-6 SKIP code
5790.3 Four corner code
1-23-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e4b Unicode hex code