Jisho

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貞

9 strokes
Radical:
shell 貝
Parts:
ハ 卜 目 貝
upright, chastity, constancy, righteousness
Kun:
ただし.い、 さだ
On:
テイ、 ジョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1389 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 貞 【テイ】 firm adherence to one's principles, chastity (of a woman)
  • 貞潔 【テイケツ】 chastity, purity
  • シロウト童貞 【シロウトドウテイ】 man who has never had sex except with sex workers
  • 不貞 【フテイ】 unfaithfulness, infidelity, unchastity
  • 貞永 【ジョウエイ】 Jōei era (1232.4.2-1233.4.15)
  • 貞応 【ジョウオウ】 Jōō era (1222.4.13-1224.11.20)

Kun reading compounds

  • 貞はる 【さだはる】 to harp too long on a subject

Readings

Japanese names:
さざ、 ただし、 りょう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhen1
Korean:
jeong

Spanish

  • recto
  • justo
  • constante
  • casto

Portuguese

  • correto
  • casto
  • constância
  • retidão

French

  • intègre
  • chasteté
  • pureté
  • vertu
1615 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1318 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
803 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1238 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1776 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
982 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1681 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1796 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1764 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1721 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2586 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1321 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1792 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
55 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36658 Morohashi
2083 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5768 New Nelson (John Haig)
55 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
58 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1295 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1261 2001 Kanji
2m7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-7 SKIP code
2-7-2 SKIP code
2180.6 Four corner code
1-36-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c9e Unicode hex code

元

4 strokes
Radical:
legs 儿
Parts:
二 儿 元
beginning, former time, origin
Kun:
もと
On:
ゲン、 ガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 元 【ゲン】 unknown (e.g. in an equation), element (of a set), yuan (monetary unit of China), New Taiwan dollar, Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368), Yüan dynasty, Mongol dynasty
  • 原価 【ゲンカ】 cost price
  • 中元 【チュウゲン】 15th day of the 7th lunar month, (last day of) Bon lantern festival, mid-year gift, summer gift, Bon Festival gifts
  • 抗原 【コウゲン】 antigen
  • 元祖 【ガンソ】 originator, pioneer, inventor, founder, progenitor, primogenitor, founder of a family line
  • 元日 【ガンジツ】 New Year's Day

Kun reading compounds

  • 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
  • 元 【もと】 former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before
  • 家元 【いえもと】 head of a school (of music, dance), head family of a school
  • 胸元 【むなもと】 breast, chest, pit of the stomach, solar plexus, epigastrium

Readings

Japanese names:
ちか、 はじめ、 はる、 ゆき、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • comienzo
  • principio
  • origen
  • jefe

Portuguese

  • começo
  • tempo anterior
  • origem

French

  • commencement
  • origine
  • ancien temps
68 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
117 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
106 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
328 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
275 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
106 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
121 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
60 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
137 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
137 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
245 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
141 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2428 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1226 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1690 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
59 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1340 Morohashi
1929 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
343 New Nelson (John Haig)
59 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
63 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
408 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
89 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
0a4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-3 SKIP code
1021.1 Four corner code
1-24-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5143 Unicode hex code