Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
red, naked
Parts:
Variants:
pardon, forgiveness
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1868 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 赦 【シャ】 pardon, amnesty
  • 赦免 【シャメン】 pardon, remission, amnesty
  • 特赦 【トクシャ】 special pardon, (general) amnesty
  • 情け容赦 【ナサケヨウシャ】 mercy

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
she4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • perdón
  • perdonar

Portuguese

  • absolvição
  • perdão

French

  • pardon
1336 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1967 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4536 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1739 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1788 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1570 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1675 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1897 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1752 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1870 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
993 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1344 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1760 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36999 Morohashi
1478 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5841 New Nelson (John Haig)
1744 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1881 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1445 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1466 2001 Kanji
4i7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
4834.0 Four corner code
1-28-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8d66 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
write
Kun:
か.く-が.き-がき
On:
ショ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
169 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 書 【ショ】 book, document, calligraphy (esp. Chinese), penmanship, handwriting, letter, note
  • 書院 【ショイン】 drawing room, study, writing alcove, publishing house
  • 投書 【トウショ】 letter (e.g. of complaint), letter to the editor, letter from a reader, contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
  • 議定書 【ギテイショ】 protocol

Kun reading compounds

  • 書く 【かく】 to write, to compose, to pen, to draw, to paint

Readings

Japanese names:
かき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu1
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • escritura
  • escrito
  • escribir

Portuguese

  • escrever

French

  • écrire
92 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
159 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
142 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
130 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3719 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
70 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
58 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1216 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
131 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
131 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
181 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
998 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1703 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2314 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
333 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14294 Morohashi
2658 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2463 New Nelson (John Haig)
327 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
349 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
121 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
197 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1678 2001 Kanji
4c6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
5060.1 Four corner code
1-29-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66f8 Unicode hex code