Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
highness, steps (of throne)
On:
ヘイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1429 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 陛下 【ヘイカ】 Your Majesty, His Majesty, Her Majesty
  • 陛衛 【ヘイエイ】 Imperial guard

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bi4
Korean:
pye

Spanish

  • alteza
  • emperador
  • emperatriz
  • escalera de palacio

Portuguese

  • alteza
  • degraus (do trono)

French

  • son altesse
  • marches (du trône)
867 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
978 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
967 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1484 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4988 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
873 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1868 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1307 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
589 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
599 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1521 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
734 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
543 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
330 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
409 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1319 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41654 Morohashi
453 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6444 New Nelson (John Haig)
1310 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1407 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
916 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3672 2001 Kanji
2d7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
7221.4 Four corner code
1-42-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
965b Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
below, down, descend, give, low, inferior
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
97 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 下 【カ】 under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of), during (war, occupation, etc.)
  • 下位 【カイ】 low rank, lower position, subordinate position, lower order (e.g. byte)
  • 陛下 【ヘイカ】 Your Majesty, His Majesty, Her Majesty
  • 最下 【サイカ】 the lowest, the worst
  • 下 【ゲ】 lowness (of degree, value, etc.), inferiority, second volume (of two), third volume (of three)
  • 下山 【ゲザン】 descending a mountain, descent
  • 高下 【コウゲ】 rise and fall (e.g. prices), fluctuation, difference (rank, grade, quality, etc.), variation
  • 帯下 【タイゲ】 leukorrhoea, leucorrhoea, leukorrhea, leucorrhea, mucous discharge from female genitals

Kun reading compounds

  • 下 【した】 below, down, under, younger (e.g. daughter), bottom, beneath, underneath, just after, right after, inferiority, one's inferior (i.e. one's junior), trade-in, preliminary, preparatory
  • 下請け 【したうけ】 subcontract, subcontractor (person or company)
  • 幕下 【まくした】 third highest division, wrestlers of the third highest division
  • 上下 【うえした】 top and bottom, up and down, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, upside-down
  • 下 【しも】 lower reaches (of a river), bottom, lower part, lower half (of the body, esp. the privates), feces (faeces), urine, menses, end, far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan), dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)
  • 下期 【しもき】 second half of the (fiscal) year
  • 風下 【かざしも】 leeward, lee, downwind
  • 裃 【かみしも】 samurai costume, old ceremonial costume, top and bottom, up and down, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends
  • 下 【もと】 under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.), under (a flag, the sun, etc.), beneath, with (e.g. one blow), on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...), in (e.g. the name of ...), (someone's) side, (someone's) location
  • 山元 【やまもと】 foot of a mountain, base of a mountain, mine, colliery, owner of a mountain, operator of a mine
  • お膝元 【おひざもと】 beside a nobleman, close aid (of a nobleman, etc.), place where a high ranking person resides, one's own city (of a shogun, lord, etc.), Imperial capital, Imperial court, (shogun's) headquarters, place under one's direct control, one's own turf, one's own backyard
  • 下げる 【さげる】 to hang, to suspend, to wear (e.g. decoration), to lower, to reduce, to bring down, to demote, to move back, to pull back, to clear (plates), to remove (food, etc. from table or altar), to keep on playing after one has formed a scoring combination with captured cards
  • 下がる 【さがる】 to come down, to go down, to fall, to drop, to sink, to get lower, to hang, to dangle, to move back, to step back, to withdraw, to retire, to deteriorate, to fall off, to be downgraded, to get closer to the present day, below, south of
  • 下る 【くだる】 to descend, to go down, to come down, to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.), to pass (of time), to surrender, to capitulate, to be less than, to be inferior to, to have the runs, to have diarrhea, to pass (in stool), to be discharged from the body, to depreciate oneself, to be humble
  • 下り 【くだり】 down-train, train heading toward the ending point of its route, down-slope, downward going, downbound (esp. away from Tokyo), downstream, downhill
  • 下り坂 【くだりざか】 downhill, downward slope, descent, decline, waning, ebb, (going) downhill
  • 下す 【くだす】 to make a decision, to draw a conclusion, to give a judgement, to hand down a verdict, to pass a sentence, to give an order, to let go down, to lower, to do oneself, to do by oneself, to beat, to defeat, to have loose bowels, to have diarrhea, to pass (in stool), to discharge from the body, to do in one go, to do to the end without stopping
  • 下さる 【くださる】 to give, to confer, to bestow, to kindly do for one, to oblige, to favour, to favor
  • 下ろす 【おろす】 to take down, to bring down, to lower (a hand, flag, shutter, etc.), to drop (an anchor, curtain, etc.), to let down (hair), to launch (a boat), to drop off (a passenger), to let off, to unload (goods, a truck, etc.), to offload, to discharge, to withdraw (money), to use for the first time, to wear for the first time, to cut off, to fillet (fish), to grate (e.g. radish), to prune (branches), to remove (someone from a position), to oust, to drop, to clear (the table), to remove (offerings from an altar), to pass down (e.g. old clothes), to hand down, to expel from the body (e.g. worms), to abort (a fetus), to invoke (a spirit), to call down
  • 降りる 【おりる】 to descend (e.g. a mountain), to go down, to come down, to alight (e.g. from bus), to get off, to disembark, to dismount, to step down, to retire, to give up, to quit, to fold, to be granted, to be issued, to be given, to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.), to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm)

Readings

Japanese names:
さか、 しと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xia4
Korean:
ha

Spanish

  • debajo
  • inferior
  • debajo de
  • parte inferior

Portuguese

  • baixo
  • abaixo
  • descende
  • inferior
  • sub
  • sob

French

  • au-dessous
  • descendre
  • bas
  • donner (vous me donnez)
  • inférieur
21 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
24 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
7 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
72 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
9 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
30 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
6 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
46 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
31 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
31 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
32 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
4 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4186 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2115 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2862 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
50 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14 Morohashi
3378 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
9 New Nelson (John Haig)
50 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
51 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
75 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
13 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3154 2001 Kanji
2m1.2 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
1023.0 Four corner code
1-18-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e0b Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
face-up, look up, depend, seek, respect, revere, drink, take
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1573 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 仰天 【ギョウテン】 being amazed, being horrified, being taken aback
  • 仰角 【ギョウカク】 angle of elevation
  • 大仰 【オオギョウ】 exaggerated, overblown, overdone
  • 景仰 【ケイコウ】 adoration, admiration, reverence
  • 景仰 【ケイコウ】 adoration, admiration, reverence
  • 欽仰 【キンギョウ】 reverence, adoration, veneration

Kun reading compounds

  • 仰ぐ 【あおぐ】 to look up (at), to look up to, to respect, to revere, to ask for (e.g. guidance), to seek, to turn to (someone) for, to depend on, to rely on, to gulp down, to quaff, to drink
  • 仰せ 【おおせ】 order (from one's superior), command, what you say, (someone's) words
  • 仰せ言 【おおせごと】 statement, order
  • 仰る 【おっしゃる】 to say, to speak, to tell, to talk
  • おっしゃる通り 【おっしゃるとおり】 I agree with you, it is as (someone) says
  • 仰る 【おっしゃる】 to say, to speak, to tell, to talk
  • おっしゃる通り 【おっしゃるとおり】 I agree with you, it is as (someone) says

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yang3
Korean:
ang

Spanish

  • admirar
  • respetar
  • mirar hacia arriba
  • instrucciones

Portuguese

  • Rosto para cima
  • melhorar
  • depender
  • procurar
  • respeito
  • rever
  • tomar

French

  • regarder en l'air
  • dire (humble)
  • dépendre
  • chercher
  • respecter
  • révérer
  • boire
  • prendre (nourriture)
1173 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1658 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
375 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1534 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1037 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
360 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1056 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1099 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1134 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
65 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
51 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
32 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
32 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1718 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
400 Morohashi
48 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
137 New Nelson (John Haig)
1701 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1836 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1057 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2144 2001 Kanji
2a4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-4 SKIP code
2722.0 Four corner code
1-22-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4ef0 Unicode hex code