Kanji1 / 10
差 kanji
distinction, difference, variation, discrepancy, margin, balance
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
サ
Kun readings
さすさし
Words with 差
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —制度化された人種差別systemic racism; institutional racism
- —適応的差分パルス符号変調adaptive differential pulse-code modulation; adaptive DPCM; ADPCM
- —差違difference; disparity; gap
- —差しruler; measure
- —差略plan; tactic; strategy
- —根差すto come from; to have roots in
- —三差路three-way junction; three-way intersection
- —目差すto aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
- —脇差しwakizashi; short sword worn by samurai
- —陽差しsunlight; rays of the Sun
- —抜差しaddition and deletion; taking out and putting in; plugging and unplugging; making do; getting by; managing
- —米差しgrain thief; tool for extracting rice from a bag for sampling
- —差し物cabinetwork; joinery; hair ornament; hairpin; colours; banner; small banner worn by soldiers during battle (for identification) from the Sengoku period to the end of the Edo period
- —差し前sword worn at one's side
- —諸差しdeep double underarm grip which prevents the opponent from grabbing the belt
- —視交差optic chiasm; optic chiasma
- —矩差しcarpenter's square
- —棹差すto pole (a boat); to punt (a boat); to swim with (the tide); to go with (the flow, the times, etc.); to go against (the tide, the flow, etc.)
- —差し料sword worn on the hip
- —雲泥之差wide difference; a world of difference