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  • 麝香 【ジャコウ】 musk
  • 麝香揚羽 【ジャコウアゲハ】 Chinese windmill (species of red-bodied swallowtail butterfly, Atrophaneura alcinous)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
she4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5382 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
47682 Morohashi
7027 New Nelson (John Haig)
3q18.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-11-10 SKIP code
0024.1 Four corner code
1-83-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9e9d Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
fragrance
Parts:
incense, smell, perfume
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
859 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 香 【コウ】 incense
  • 香水 【コウスイ】 perfume, scent
  • 線香 【センコウ】 incense stick
  • 焼香 【ショウコウ】 burning (offer) incense
  • 香 【キョウ】 lance
  • 香車 【キョウシャ】 lance
  • 異香 【イキョウ】 great fragrance
  • 茴香 【ウイキョウ】 fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Kun reading compounds

  • 香 【か】 smell (esp. a good smell), fragrance, scent, aroma, perfume
  • 香り 【かおり】 aroma, fragrance, scent, smell
  • 腸香 【わたか】 Ischikauia steenackeri (species of cyprinid fish)
  • 木の香 【きのか】 smell of new wood
  • 香り 【かおり】 aroma, fragrance, scent, smell
  • 香りがする 【かおりがする】 to smell, to smell of, to have a smell
  • 香る 【かおる】 to smell sweet, to be fragrant

Readings

Japanese names:
こ、 こお、 ひゃん、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiang1
Korean:
hyang

Spanish

  • incienso
  • perfume
  • fragancia
  • aroma
  • dar olor

Portuguese

  • incenso
  • cheiro
  • perfume

French

  • senteur
  • encens
  • parfum
1255 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
832 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5188 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1059 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1014 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
961 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1682 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1797 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1705 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1911 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3177 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1637 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2225 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
920 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44518 Morohashi
2568 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6722 New Nelson (John Haig)
911 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
977 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1301 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2278 2001 Kanji
5d4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
2-1-8 SKIP code
2060.9 Four corner code
1-25-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9999 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
rat, mouse
Parts:
Variants:

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  • 鼠疫 【ソエキ】 plague, pest
  • 鼠害 【ソガイ】 damage by rats or mice
  • 海鼠 【ナマコ】 sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
  • 飛鼠 【ヒソ】 bat (animal)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠穴 【ねずみあな】 rathole, mousehole
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 臭鼠 【においねずみ】 muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠子 【ねずこ】 Japanese arborvitae (Thuja standishii)
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 梅鼠 【うめねず】 grayish pink, rose grey

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu3
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • ratón
  • rata

Portuguese

French

5417 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2430 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3340 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
48390 Morohashi
2693 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7078 New Nelson (John Haig)
2065 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2856 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-7 SKIP code
2-5-7 SKIP code
7771.7 Four corner code
1-33-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9f20 Unicode hex code