| 260 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 166 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 149 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 381 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4293 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 211 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 248 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2544 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3.6 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 175 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 175 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 249 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1647 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2264 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1172 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1599 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1518 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 34918 | Morohashi |
| 1799 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5534 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1504 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1621 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 315 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 237 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
406 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 親 【シン】 intimacy, closeness, friendliness, close relative, pro- (e.g. pro-American)
- 親衛 【シンエイ】 monarch's guards
- 懇親 【コンシン】 friendship, intimacy
- 近親 【キンシン】 near relative
Kun reading compounds
- 親 【おや】 parent, parents, mother and father, dealer, banker, founder, inventor, (pet) owner, key, parent (organization), main, ancestor, forefather
- 親方 【おやかた】 master, boss, chief, foreman, supervisor, stable master, craftsman, artisan, foster parent
- 生みの親 【うみのおや】 biological parent, founder, creator
- 里親 【さとおや】 foster parent, foster parents, (pet) caretaker
- 親しい 【したしい】 close (e.g. friend), familiar, friendly, intimate, familiar (e.g. story), well-known (to one), close (relatives), closely related
- 親しむ 【したしむ】 to be intimate with, to befriend
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ぎ、 ちか、 のり
- Korean:
- chin
Spanish
- padre
- madre
- familiares
- íntimo
- personalmente
- padres
- hacerse amigo
- intimar
Portuguese
- pai
- intimidade
- parente
- familiaridade
- crupiê
French
- parent
- parenté
- intimité
- familiarité
- donneur (cartes)
| 457 | 2001 Kanji |
| 5b11.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-9-7 | SKIP code |
| 0691.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-31-38 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 89aa | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1572 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 疎 【ソ】 sparse, distant (of a relationship), estranged, alienated
- 疎開 【ソカイ】 evacuation (to the country), spreading out (troops), deployment, dispersal
- 過疎 【カソ】 underpopulation, low population density, depopulation
- 空疎 【クウソ】 empty (e.g. argument), insubstantial, hollow, fruitless
Kun reading compounds
- 疎い 【うとい】 distant (from someone), aloof, estranged, knowing little (of), ill-informed (about), ignorant (of), unfamiliar (with), unacquainted (with)
- 疎む 【うとむ】 to shun, to avoid, to ostracize, to neglect, to distance oneself from, to give the hard shoulder
- 疎ら 【まばら】 sparse, thin, scattered, straggling, sporadic
Readings
- Korean:
- so
Spanish
- descuidar
- desatender
- rehuir
- desinteresado
- descuidado
Portuguese
- desviar
- rude
- negligenciar
- evitar
- esparso
French
- négligence
- ignorer
- aliéner
- éviter
- grossier
- clairsemé
- épars
| 1509 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1786 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3021 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1601 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1542 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1514 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1615 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1826 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1346 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1512 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 799 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1091 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1684 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 22002 | Morohashi |
| 1178 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3776 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1668 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1797 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1568 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3564 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a11.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-5-7 | SKIP code |
| 1-4-7 | SKIP code |
| 1519.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-33-34 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 758e | Unicode hex code |