侍

侍 — waiter, samurai, wait upon

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 8
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1939 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: じ ji

し shi
Kun'yomi: さむらい samurai

はべ.る habe.ru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 侍

A kanji is worth learning for the words it unlocks. These are from the JLPT vocabulary lists.

侍さむらい warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period) JLPT N1