Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
ought, by all means, necessarily
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 須恵器 【スエキ】 Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era)
  • 須義 【スギ】 cobia (Rachycentron canadum), sergeant fish
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 提宇子 【ダイウス】 God
  • 須髯 【シュゼン】 beard
  • 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)

Kun reading compounds

  • 須らく 【すべからく】 absolutely (ought to), by all means, all, entirely

Readings

Japanese names:
もとむ、 ぞ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu1
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • instante
  • desear
  • anhelar
  • esperar

Portuguese

French

  • nécessité
  • certainement
  • devrait faire
936 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1592 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1946 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1544 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2263 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1531 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
700 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
419 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
526 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1734 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43352 Morohashi
574 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6618 New Nelson (John Haig)
1718 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1854 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3j9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
2128.6 Four corner code
1-31-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9808 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肉髯 【ニクゼン】 wattle (of a bird's neck)
  • 白髯 【ハクゼン】 white beard

Kun reading compounds

  • 髭 【ひげ】 moustache, mustache, beard, whiskers, sideburns, whiskers (on a cat, etc.), feelers (on an insect, etc.), (chin) tuft, shadow (on a candlestick chart)
  • 髯発条 【ひげぜんまい】 balance spring, hairspring
  • 青ひげ 【あおひげ】 use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks
  • 頬髭 【ほおひげ】 whiskers, sideburns, sideboards

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ran2, ran3
Korean:
yeom

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5259 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2580 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
45404X Morohashi
6809 New Nelson (John Haig)
3j12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-10-5 SKIP code
7255.7 Four corner code
7244.7 Four corner code
1-81-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9aef Unicode hex code