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Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1939 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: waiter, samurai, wait upon, serve

Kunyomi: さむらい, はべ.る

Onyomi: ジ, シ

Composition: 亻 寺

侍

Radical

Radical: 人

Meaning: man, human

Reading: ひと

Frequency: 794

Alternative forms:

亻(alt radical position hen)𠆢(alt radical position kanmuri)

人

Examples

Onyomi Examples

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

Kunyomi Examples

侍 (さむらい) warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period), samurai, person with a strong backbone, person that does incredible things, person of considerable talent

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

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