Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
conceal, hide, cover
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1089 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 隠滅 【インメツ】 destruction (esp. of evidence), spoliation, suppression, hiding, concealment
  • 陰謀 【インボウ】 plot, intrigue, scheme, conspiracy, agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
  • 退隠 【タイイン】 retirement (from an official position)
  • 大隠 【タイイン】 enlightened hermit
  • 隠密 【オンミツ】 secret, clandestine, covert, stealthy, spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.), secret agent
  • 隠形 【オンギョウ】 invisibility (through magic)

Kun reading compounds

  • 隠す 【かくす】 to hide, to conceal
  • 隠し 【かくし】 hiding, concealing, being hidden, being concealed, pocket
  • 隠し引き出し 【かくしひきだし】 secret drawer, hidden drawer
  • 釘隠 【くぎかくし】 nail hider, nailhead cover, decorative object which conceals the head of a nail
  • 雉隠 【きじかくし】 Asparagus schoberioides
  • 隠れる 【かくれる】 to hide, to conceal oneself, to take cover, to disappear (behind), to be hidden (by), to be covered, to go out of sight, to live in seclusion, to retire (from the world), to be unknown (e.g. of a talent), to be undiscovered, to be hidden (e.g. of a meaning), to pass away (of a person of high position)

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 がくし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin3
Korean:
eun

Spanish

  • ocultar
  • esconder
  • cubrir
  • esconderse
  • estar escondido

Portuguese

  • esconder
  • esconderijo
  • capa

French

  • dissimuler
  • cacher
  • couvrir
1014 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1511 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5020 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1374 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1881 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2074 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
868 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
887 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1235 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
749 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
873 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
502 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
645 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1322 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41836P Morohashi
713 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6480 New Nelson (John Haig)
1313 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1410 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1740 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3658 2001 Kanji
2d11.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
7223.7 Four corner code
1-17-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96a0 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
corpse
Parts:
Variants:
reside, to be, exist, live with
Kun:
い.る-いお.る
On:
キョ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
836 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 居 【キョ】 residence
  • 居室 【キョシツ】 living room
  • 入居 【ニュウキョ】 moving in (to a house, apartment, etc.), taking up residence
  • 住居 【ジュウキョ】 dwelling, house, residence, address
  • 居士 【コジ】 grhapati (layman; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix), private-sector scholar

Kun reading compounds

  • 居る 【いる】 to be (of animate objects), to exist, to stay, to be ...-ing, to have been ...-ing
  • 居留守 【いるす】 pretending to be out
  • 居る 【おる】 to be (animate), to be, to exist, to be ...-ing, to (have the audacity to) do

Readings

Japanese names:
おき、 ぐ、 すえ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ju1, ji1
Korean:
geo, gi

Spanish

  • sentarse
  • residir
  • vivir con
  • ser [nk]
  • existir

Portuguese

  • residir
  • existir
  • viver com

French

  • se trouver
  • résider
  • être
  • exister
  • vivre avec
586 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
678 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
649 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
777 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1387 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
208 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
483 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
737 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
171 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
171 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
535 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
527 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3822 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1959 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2653 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1072 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7663 Morohashi
3080 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1416 New Nelson (John Haig)
1063 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1143 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
281 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
680 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3777 2001 Kanji
3r5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
7726.4 Four corner code
1-21-79 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c45 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
attend, doing, official, serve
Kun:
つか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
439 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 仕 【シ】 official, civil service
  • 試合 【シアイ】 match, game, bout, contest
  • 勤労奉仕 【キンロウホウシ】 labor service, labour service
  • 中仕 【ナカシ】 longshoreman, baggageman
  • 仕込み 【ジコミ】 learned at ..., acquired at ...
  • 仕丁 【シチョウ】 men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryō system), palanquin bearer (Edo period)
  • 致仕 【チシ】 resignation, seventy years of age

Kun reading compounds

  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • trabajo
  • servir
  • asistir

Portuguese

  • atender
  • ação
  • oficial
  • servir

French

  • servir
  • faire
  • officiel
221 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
301 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
285 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
397 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
362 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
75 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
110 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
124 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
333 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
333 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
236 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
58 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
37 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
21 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
21 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
969 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
368 Morohashi
34 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
123 New Nelson (John Haig)
960 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1033 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
271 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
250 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2172 2001 Kanji
2a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-3 SKIP code
2421.0 Four corner code
1-27-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4ed5 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
Variants:
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kun:
ことつか.うつか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
  • 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
  • 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
  • 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency

Kun reading compounds

  • 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
  • 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
  • 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cosa
  • hecho
  • asunto
  • acción

Portuguese

  • matéria
  • coisa
  • fato
  • negócios
  • razão
  • possivelmente

French

  • fait
  • chose
  • matière
  • affaire
  • raison
  • peut-être
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
309 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
293 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
272 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
73 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
108 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
768 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
80 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
30 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4384 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
241 Morohashi
3567 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 New Nelson (John Haig)
1156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
300 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1547 2001 Kanji
0a8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
5000.7 Four corner code
1-27-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e8b Unicode hex code