96 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
169 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
152 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
167 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
4273 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
28 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
83 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
336 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.20 | Japanese for Busy People |
72 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
72 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
40 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1638 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4333 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2193 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2951 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1616 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
34763 | Morohashi |
3520 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
5514 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1602 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1728 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
198 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
128 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
西
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
259 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 西 【セイ】 Spain
- 西欧 【セイオウ】 Western Europe, the West, the Occident, Europe
- 南西 【ナンセイ】 southwest
- 北北西 【ホクホクセイ】 north-northwest
- 西方 【セイホウ】 western direction, Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise), western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
- 西遊 【セイユウ】 westward trip, trip to the West
- 西瓜 【スイカ】 watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
- 西班牙 【スペイン】 Spain
Kun reading compounds
- 西 【にし】 west
- 西方 【せいほう】 western direction, Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise), western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
- 南西 【なんせい】 southwest
- 京都外大西 【きょうとがいだいにし】 Kyoto Gaidainishi
Readings
- Japanese names:
- いり、 ひし、 むら
- Korean:
- seo
Spanish
- Oeste
- España
Portuguese
- oeste
- Espanha
French
- Ouest
- Espagne
3275 | 2001 Kanji |
0a6.20 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-6-1 | SKIP code |
1060.0 | Four corner code |
1-32-30 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
897f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
659 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 夏 【カ】 Xia dynasty (of China; c. 2070-1600 BCE; possibly mythological), Hsia dynasty
- 夏季 【カキ】 summer season
- 初夏 【ショカ】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
- 盛夏 【セイカ】 midsummer, height of summer
- 夏 【ゲ】 summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month)
- 夏至 【ゲシ】 summer solstice
- 一夏 【イチゲ】 one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat)
- 半夏 【ハンゲ】 crow dipper (Pinellia tuber), 11th day after the summer solstice, last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
Kun reading compounds
- 夏 【なつ】 summer
- 夏季 【かき】 summer season
- 初夏 【しょか】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
- 常夏 【とこなつ】 everlasting summer
Readings
- Korean:
- ha
Spanish
- verano
Portuguese
- verão
French
- été
52 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
88 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
82 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
580 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
58 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
163 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
148 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
1161 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
3.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
461 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
469 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
97 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
402 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2619 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1339 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1815 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
302 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
5720 | Morohashi |
2113 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1120 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
296 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
317 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
188 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
3167 | 2001 Kanji |
4i7.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-2-8 | SKIP code |
2-7-3 | SKIP code |
1024.7 | Four corner code |
1040.7 | Four corner code |
1-18-38 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
590f | Unicode hex code |