Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
blue 青 (靑)
Parts:
blue, green
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
589 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 青果 【セイカ】 fruits and vegetables, produce
  • 青雲 【セイウン】 blue sky, erudition, detachment from the world, high rank
  • 回青 【カイセイ】 Mohammedan blue (pigment used in porcelain painting)
  • 黛青 【タイセイ】 blackish blue
  • 青面金剛 【ショウメンコンゴウ】 Shōmen Kongō, Blue-Faced Vajra, blue-skinned deity depicted with two, four or six arms; originally associated with esoteric Buddhism, thought to bring sickness; revered as part of kōshin-machi beliefs during the Edo period
  • 青龍 【セイリョウ】 blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology), Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
  • 緑青 【ロクショウ】 verdigris, green rust, copper rust
  • 花緑青 【ハナロクショウ】 Paris green, emerald green

Kun reading compounds

  • 青 【あお】 blue, azure, green, green light (traffic), black (horse coat color), blue 5-point card, immature, unripe, young
  • 青梅 【あおうめ】 unripe plum
  • プロシア青 【プロシアあお】 Prussian blue
  • 深青 【ふかあお】 dark blue, deep blue, navy blue
  • 青い 【あおい】 blue, azure, green, pale (facial color), gray, grey, unripe, inexperienced
  • 青色 【あおいろ】 blue

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing1
Korean:
cheong

Spanish

  • azul
  • verde
  • pálido

Portuguese

  • verde
  • azul
  • imaturo
  • verde-claro

French

  • bleu
  • vert
36 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
52 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
43 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
390 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5076 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
331 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
273 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
700 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
208 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
208 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
47 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1871 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3084 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1573 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2152 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1548 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42564P Morohashi
2430 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6557 New Nelson (John Haig)
1534 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1654 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
393 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
74 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1446 2001 Kanji
4b4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
5022.7 Four corner code
1-32-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9752 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
soup, juice, broth, sap, gravy, pus
Kun:
しる-しるつゆ
On:
ジュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1843 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 汁液 【ジュウエキ】 juice
  • 果汁 【カジュウ】 fruit juice
  • 胆汁 【タンジュウ】 bile, gall

Kun reading compounds

  • 汁 【しる】 juice, sap, soup, broth, (dipping) sauce
  • 汁気 【しるけ】 juice
  • 魚汁 【いしる】 ishiru, ishiri, fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; specialty of the Noto Peninsula
  • 藍汁 【あいしる】 mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)
  • 汁 【しる】 juice, sap, soup, broth, (dipping) sauce
  • 汁だく 【つゆだく】 soupy, containing more broth or sauce than usual (of gyudon, etc.)
  • お汁 【おつゆ】 broth, soup (esp. miso soup)
  • 蕎麦つゆ 【そばつゆ】 soba dipping sauce

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhi1
Korean:
jeub, jib

Spanish

  • sopa
  • jugo
  • caldo
  • salsa

Portuguese

  • sopa
  • suco
  • caldo
  • graxa
  • molho (carne)
  • pus

French

  • soupe
  • jus
  • bouillon
  • sève
  • pus
1361 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1502 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2485 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1848 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1457 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1794 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1930 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1399 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1157 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
227 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
144 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
173 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
142 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17104 Morohashi
195 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3035 New Nelson (John Haig)
140 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
150 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1050 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
355 2001 Kanji
3a2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-2 SKIP code
3410.0 Four corner code
1-29-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c41 Unicode hex code