Movement & beasts
Tap an example word to hear it pronounced.
What the component colors mean
言
Blue - the main radical the kanji is filed under in dictionaries.
氵
Green - a component that hints at the meaning.
生
Orange - a component that hints at the reading (sound).
?
Grey - another building block, with no clear meaning or sound role.
Example words
失踪
disappearance
踪跡
traces, tracks
失踪者
missing person
Example words
遡及
retroactivity
遡上
going upstream
遡る
to go back, to trace back
Example words
謙遜
modesty, humility
不遜
insolence, arrogance
遜色
inferiority
Example words
駒
chess/shogi piece
手駒
pieces at hand; pawns
持ち駒
available pieces/resources
Example words
乞う
to beg, to ask for
物乞い
begging; beggar
命乞い
begging for one's life
Practice
Test yourself on this lesson's kanji.