Jisho

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飼

13 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
亅 个 口 艮 食
domesticate, raise, keep, feed
Kun:
か.う
On:
シ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
1392 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 飼料 【シリョウ】 fodder, feed
  • 飼育 【シイク】 breeding, raising, rearing
  • 放飼 【ホウシ】 free-range rearing, letting (animals) roam freely, pasturing, releasing (insects) into the wild

Kun reading compounds

  • 飼う 【かう】 to keep (a pet or other animal), to have, to own, to raise, to rear, to feed

Readings

Japanese names:
かい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • criar
  • mantener
  • tener animales

Portuguese

  • domesticar
  • levantar
  • guardar
  • alimentar

French

  • domestiquer
  • élever
  • garder
  • nourrir
722 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1322 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1432 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5163 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1156 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1904 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1762 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1892 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1348 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1905 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2149 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1128 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1529 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1884 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44107P Morohashi
1716 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6685 New Nelson (John Haig)
1866 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2010 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
777 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2849 2001 Kanji
8b5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8772.0 Four corner code
1-27-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98fc Unicode hex code

主

5 strokes
Radical:
dot 丶
Parts:
丶 王
lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
Kun:
ぬし、 おも、 あるじ
On:
シュ、 ス、 シュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
95 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 主 【シュ】 (one's) master, (one's) employer, (one's) lord, leader (of a country, group, etc.), head, chief, Lord, main thing, chief part, first consideration, primary object, principal aim
  • 主 【シュウ】 (one's) master, (one's) employer, (one's) lord
  • 自主 【ジシュ】 independence, autonomy, self-reliance
  • 盟主 【メイシュ】 leader (of an alliance), leading power
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 法主 【ホッス】 high priest
  • 座主 【ザス】 temple's head priest
  • 主 【シュウ】 (one's) master, (one's) employer, (one's) lord
  • 主従 【シュウジュウ】 master and servant, lord and retainer, employer and employee
  • 男主 【オトコアルジ】 male head of a household, male owner, landlord, proprietor, male employer

Kun reading compounds

  • 主 【ぬし】 head (of a household, etc.), leader, master, owner, proprietor, proprietress, subject (of a rumour, etc.), doer (of a deed), guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers), long-time resident (or employee, etc.), husband, you
  • 馬主 【うまぬし】 owner of a horse (esp. racehorse), registered owner (of a racehorse)
  • 船主 【せんしゅ】 shipowner
  • 主 【おも】 chief, main, principal, important, main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen)
  • 主に 【おもに】 mainly, primarily, mostly, largely, chiefly
  • 主 【あるじ】 head (of a household), proprietor (of a store), proprietress, landlord, landlady, master (of a servant), entertaining someone as one's guest
  • 男主 【おとこあるじ】 male head of a household, male owner, landlord, proprietor, male employer
  • 女主 【おんなあるじ】 female owner, proprietress, landlady, female head of a household

Readings

Japanese names:
かず、 ず、 もん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu3
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • señor
  • jefe
  • dueño
  • patrón

Portuguese

  • senhor
  • chefe
  • mestre
  • coisa principal
  • principal

French

  • maître
  • seigneur
  • chef
  • principal
  • propriétaire
  • mari
237 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
315 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
299 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
91 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
285 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
49 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
106 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
196 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
155 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
155 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
70 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
19 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2437 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1231 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1696 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
272 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
100 Morohashi
1938 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
38 New Nelson (John Haig)
266 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
284 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
34 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
252 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
472 2001 Kanji
4f1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-4 SKIP code
4-5-2 SKIP code
2-2-3 SKIP code
0010.4 Four corner code
1-28-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e3b Unicode hex code