Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
wine, alcohol
Parts:
ugly, unclean, shame, bad looking
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2074 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 醜 【シュウ】 ugliness, shame, disgrace
  • 醜女 【シュウジョ】 homely woman, plain-looking woman, female demon
  • 老醜 【ロウシュウ】 ugliness of old age
  • 美醜 【ビシュウ】 beauty or ugliness, personal appearance, looks

Kun reading compounds

  • 醜い 【みにくい】 ugly, unattractive, bad-looking, unsightly, unseemly, disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable
  • みにくいアヒルの子 【みにくいあひるのこ】 ugly duckling
  • 醜 【しこ】 ugly, repulsive, detestable, contemptible, unworthy, insignificant, humble, strong and frightening thing
  • 醜女 【しゅうじょ】 homely woman, plain-looking woman, female demon

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chou3
Korean:
chu

Spanish

  • feo
  • mal aspecto
  • innoble
  • vergüenza

Portuguese

  • sujo
  • feio
  • vergonha
  • má aparência

French

  • laid
  • malpropre
  • hideux
  • honteux
1359 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1969 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4798 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1703 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1839 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1527 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1628 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1755 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1798 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2058 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1082 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1469 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2039 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39969 Morohashi
1629 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6189 New Nelson (John Haig)
2020 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2176 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1890 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3257 2001 Kanji
7e10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-10 SKIP code
1661.3 Four corner code
1-29-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
919c Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
-こ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code