Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

496 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 19

Meaning: discriminating, know, write

Kunyomi: し.る しる.す

Onyomi: シキ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ごんべん

Meaning: speech

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

(ちしき)   knowledge

(じょうしき)   common sense

(りょうしき)   good sense

する(にんしきする)   recognize

する(いしきする)   be aware of

別する(しきべつする)   discriminate

Onyomi Examples

シキ acquaintanceship, vijnana, consciousness, written by...

シキシャ well-informed person, thinking person, intelligent person

光学式文字認 コウガクシキモジニンシキ optical character recognition, OCR

目的意 モクテキイシキ sense of purpose

Kunyomi Examples

知る しる to know, to be aware (of), to be conscious (of), to learn (of), to find out, to discover, to sense, to feel, to notice, to realize, to understand, to comprehend, to grasp, to appreciate, to remember, to be familiar with, to be acquainted with, to experience, to go through, to know (e.g. hardship), to get acquainted with (a person), to get to know, to have to do with, to be concerned with, to be one's concern, to be one's responsibility

記す しるす to write down, to note down, to jot down, to take a note of, to mention, to describe, to give an account of, to inscribe, to mark, to brand, to remember, to engrave (in one's mind)

記す しるす to write down, to note down, to jot down, to take a note of, to mention, to describe, to give an account of, to inscribe, to mark, to brand, to remember, to engrave (in one's mind)