詞 — part of speech, words, poetry

し詞 part of speech

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+8A5E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1636 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2009 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

part of speech
words
poetry

word

し shi On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

詞(し) shi word 歌(か) 詞(し) kashi lyrics 名(めい) 詞(し) meishi noun 動(どう) 詞(し) doushi verb 作(さく) 詞(し) sakushi lyric writing 形(けい) 容(よう) 詞(し) keiyoushi adjective 代(だい) 名(めい) 詞(し) daimeishi pronoun

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

台詞(せりふ) serifu dialogue

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

げん言 say #149

つかさ司 director

Open in Atlas

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#149 言 speech