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The kanji 侍: meaning, readings and stroke order
侍
- Meaning
- serve, samurai
- On reading
- ジ ji
- Kun reading
- さむらい samurai
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 人 man, human
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- hầu cận, võ sĩ samurai (thị)
- Japanese
- えらい ひとの そばに つかえる。さむらい。
- Korean
- 모시다, 사무라이 (시)
- Chinese
- 侍奉、武士
Readings, words and example sentences
ジ ji · on reading · less common
侍医
personal doctor (of a ruler)
王の 侍医を つとめました。
He served as the king's personal doctor.
さむらい samurai · kun reading
侍
samurai
むかしの 侍の 話です。
This is a story about samurai of long ago.
Practise writing 侍 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 侍 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.