Jisho

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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鮒 【フナ】 crucian carp (Carassius spp.)
  • 鮒侍 【フナザムライ】 cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside

Kun reading compounds

  • 鮒 【ふな】 crucian carp (Carassius spp.)
  • 鮒侍 【ふなざむらい】 cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu4
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • carpa (pez)

Portuguese

French

5287 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2546 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
46075 Morohashi
6854 New Nelson (John Haig)
2825 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2840 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-5 SKIP code
2430.0 Four corner code
1-42-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9b92 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
waiter, samurai, wait upon, serve
Kun:
さむらいはべ.る
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1939 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 侍従 【ジジュウ】 chamberlain
  • 侍医 【ジイ】 court physician
  • 内侍 【ナイシ】 maid of honor, maid of honour, lady-in-waiting
  • 陪侍 【バイジ】 retainer, attending on the nobility
  • 内侍 【ナイシ】 maid of honor, maid of honour, lady-in-waiting

Kun reading compounds

  • 侍 【さむらい】 warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period), samurai, man in attendance (on a person of high standing), retainer
  • 侍蟻 【さむらいあり】 Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)
  • 二四六九士 【にしむくさむらい】 nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)
  • 七人の侍 【しちにんのさむらい】 Seven Samurai (film by Akira Kurosawa)
  • 侍る 【はべる】 to wait upon, to serve

Readings

Japanese names:
かみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
si

Spanish

  • sirviente
  • criado
  • samurai

Portuguese

  • garçom
  • samurai
  • esperar sobre
  • servir

French

  • serviteur
  • samouraï
  • servir
1326 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1823 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
427 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1446 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1046 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
559 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
571 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
580 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1878 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
90 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
94 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
62 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
66 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
985 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
589 Morohashi
85 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
192 New Nelson (John Haig)
976 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1050 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1150 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2148 2001 Kanji
2a6.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-6 SKIP code
2424.1 Four corner code
1-27-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f8d Unicode hex code