Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
detach, separation, disjoin, digress
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
555 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 離 【リ】 li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
  • 離宮 【リキュウ】 imperial villa, royal villa, detached palace
  • 短距離 【タンキョリ】 short distance, short range, short-haul
  • 近距離 【キンキョリ】 short distance

Kun reading compounds

  • 離れる 【はなれる】 to be separated, to be apart, to be distant, to leave, to go away, to leave (a job, etc.), to quit, to give up, to lose connection with, to drift away from
  • 離す 【はなす】 to separate, to part, to divide, to keep apart

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li2
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • separarse
  • apartarse
  • separar
  • apartar

Portuguese

  • separar
  • separação
  • digressão
  • divagação

French

  • séparer
  • détacher
  • diviser
  • s'écarter
1897 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
641 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5040 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
909 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1887 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2889 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1281 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1355 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1008 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1857 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2364 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1663 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1505 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42140X Morohashi
1836 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6517 New Nelson (John Haig)
1492 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1605 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1923 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
475 2001 Kanji
8c10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-8 SKIP code
0041.4 Four corner code
1-46-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96e2 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
beach
Kun:
きし
On:
ガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
556 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 岸壁 【ガンペキ】 quay, wharf, jetty, wall-like shoreline, cliff wall
  • 岸頭 【ガントウ】 shore, wharf
  • 護岸 【ゴガン】 river dike
  • 対岸 【タイガン】 opposite shore

Kun reading compounds

  • 岸 【きし】 bank, coast, shore
  • 岸辺 【きしべ】 shore, bank (of a body of water)
  • 片岸 【かたぎし】 one bank (of a river)
  • 彼の岸 【かのきし】 nirvana

Readings

Japanese names:
けし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
an4
Korean:
an

Spanish

  • playa
  • costa
  • orilla

Portuguese

  • Praia

French

  • côte
  • rive
  • plage
177 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
267 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
248 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
847 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1413 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
687 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
488 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
941 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
586 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
595 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
456 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
539 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2777 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1424 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1920 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1668 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8009 Morohashi
2236 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1459 New Nelson (John Haig)
1653 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1782 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
294 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1255 2001 Kanji
3o5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2224.1 Four corner code
1-20-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5cb8 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
Variants:
dike, bank, embankment
Kun:
つつみ
On:
テイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1658 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 堤防 【テイボウ】 bank, weir, embankment, levee
  • 提出 【テイシュツ】 presentation (of documents), submission (of an application, report, etc.), production (e.g. of evidence), introduction (e.g. of a bill), filing, turning in
  • 突堤 【トッテイ】 jetty, breakwater, pier
  • 神経堤 【シンケイテイ】 neural crest

Kun reading compounds

  • 堤 【つつみ】 bank, embankment, dike
  • 堤を築く 【つつみをきずく】 to build an embankment

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
di1, ti2
Korean:
je

Spanish

  • dique
  • malecón
  • terraplén
  • escollo

Portuguese

  • represa
  • dique

French

  • digue
  • berge
  • rive
1620 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1555 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1108 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1404 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1157 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1557 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1592 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1699 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1852 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
382 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
681 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
410 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
515 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
397 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5259 Morohashi
560 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1054 New Nelson (John Haig)
390 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
416 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1516 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1470 2001 Kanji
3b9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
4618.1 Four corner code
1-36-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5824 Unicode hex code