Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
clothes 衣 (衤)
Parts:
decline, wane, weaken
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1432 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 衰退 【スイタイ】 decline, degeneration, decay, waning, ebbing
  • 衰弱 【スイジャク】 weakness, debility, breakdown, prostration
  • 減衰 【ゲンスイ】 attenuation, damping, decay
  • 盛衰 【セイスイ】 rise and fall, ups and downs, welfare, vicissitudes

Kun reading compounds

  • 衰える 【おとろえる】 to become weak, to decline, to wear, to abate, to decay, to wither, to waste away

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shuai1, cui1
Korean:
soe, choe

Spanish

  • declinar
  • rehusar
  • menguar
  • debilitarse

Portuguese

  • decadência
  • decadente
  • enfraquecer

French

  • déclin
  • diminuer
  • s'affaiblir
1456 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1577 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
312 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1501 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1725 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1676 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1791 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1805 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1622 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2604 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1333 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1806 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1908 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
34127 Morohashi
2100 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5432 New Nelson (John Haig)
1890 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2037 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1388 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
465 2001 Kanji
2j8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-8 SKIP code
0073.2 Four corner code
1-31-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8870 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
colour, prettiness
Parts:
color
Kun:
いろ
On:
ショクシキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
621 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 色 【ショク】 counter for colours
  • 紫色 【ムラサキイロ】 purple, violet
  • 彩色 【サイシキ】 colouring, coloring, colouration, coloration, painting
  • 色 【シキ】 rupa (form), visible objects (i.e. color and form)
  • 色彩 【シキサイ】 colour, color, hue, tints
  • 彩色 【サイシキ】 colouring, coloring, colouration, coloration, painting
  • 極彩色 【ゴクサイシキ】 richly colored, richly coloured

Kun reading compounds

  • 色 【いろ】 colour, color, hue, tint, tinge, shade, complexion, skin colour, skin color, look (on one's face), expression, appearance, air, feeling, personality, character, tone (of one's voice, etc.), tune, sound, ring, love, lust, sensuality, love affair, lover, paramour, beauty, sexiness, physical appeal, kind, type, variety
  • 色合い 【いろあい】 colouring, coloring, shade (of colour), hue, tone, tinge, tint, flavour, nuance, feel, sense, look
  • 紫色 【むらさきいろ】 purple, violet
  • 橙色 【だいだいいろ】 orange (color, colour)

Readings

Japanese names:
しか、 しこ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
se4, shai3
Korean:
saeg

Spanish

  • color
  • aspecto

Portuguese

  • cor

French

  • couleur
94 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
162 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
145 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
326 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3889 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
241 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
243 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
345 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
204 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
204 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
316 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1599 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2522 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1280 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1748 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1769 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30602 Morohashi
2029 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4956 New Nelson (John Haig)
1753 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1890 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
405 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
127 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2556 2001 Kanji
2n4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
2771.7 Four corner code
1-31-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8272 Unicode hex code