Animals & food
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On'yomi & Kun'yomi
On'yomi (音読み) is the reading borrowed from Chinese, usually used in compound words, e.g. 三月 (さんがつ, March).
Kun'yomi (訓読み) is the native Japanese reading, used when the kanji stands alone or takes kana endings, e.g. 三つ (みっつ, three items).
By convention the readings list writes on'yomi in katakana (シュ) and kun'yomi in hiragana (さけ). Example words show furigana in hiragana, so the same on'yomi can look like シュ in the list but しゅ in a word.
What the component colors mean
Blue - the main radical the kanji is filed under in dictionaries.
Green - a component that hints at the meaning.
Orange - a component that hints at the reading (sound).
Grey - another building block, with no clear meaning or sound role.
sacrifice, victim
victim
sacrifice hit (baseball)
sacrifice, victim
victim
self-sacrificing
hell
prison
bribery scandal
pork
pig farming
pigsty
whaling
whale meat
white whale (Moby Dick)
chicken egg
poultry farming
chicken meat
starvation, dying of hunger
famine, starvation
hungry ghost; brat
saturation
satiation, gluttony
to get tired of
knight
horseback riding
one-on-one combat
Practice
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