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Kanji Detail for 差 - "difference, to send"

差

  • Meaning

    差 means "difference, to send." Also associated with to vary.

    1. Difference - A distinction; a gap.

    2. Send - To dispatch; to assign.

    3. Vary - To differ; to diverge.

  • Words using 差

    • 差別 さべつ Listen distinction; differentiation; discrimination
    • 格差 かくさ Listen qualitative difference; disparity; gap
    • 差益 さえき Listen marginal profits
    • 偏差値 へんさち Listen deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score
    • 大差 たいさ Listen great difference; big difference; wide margin
    • 差し止め さしとめ Listen prohibition; ban; suspension
    • 差額 さがく Listen balance; difference (in price, cost); margin
    • 落差 らくさ Listen difference in elevation (between two points in a body of water); head; drop (e.g. of a waterfall)

  • Four-character idioms with 差

    • 千差万別 せんさばんべつ Listen an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging

  • Tattoo check: 差

    • Verified meaning: difference, to send
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to vary

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    distinction; difference; variation; discrepancy; margin; balance

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    to differ; different, wrong; nearly, almost; an officer

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    difference, gap; almost, nearly; in error; an officer

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Error. Such as 失之毫釐、差以千里, meaning carelessness at the start, though small, leads to great error. See (Book of Han). | Gradation; unequal. Such as descending by degrees called 等差. Uneven things are called 參差. | To send. Sending someone on a task is called 差. Such as 差遣. Colloquially, the task itself is also called 差. Such as completing a task called 銷差. | Difference. Slightly better from illness is called 小差, meaning different from the previous severity. Commonly written as 瘥.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sa(サ) サ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    sa.su(さ-す) さ-す

    sashi(さし) さし

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    工 (e・takumi・takumihen・ko)

  • Related Keywords

    difference send vary deduction dispatch inconsistency slightly distinction discrepancy contrast deviation disparity gap diverge variation

Sentences including 差

  • What happened at that crossing?

  • The accident took place near that intersection.

  • The baby held out his tiny hand.

  • Subtract two from ten and you have eight.

  • This is for you.

  • I'll send someone up to help you now.

  • Don't point at others.

  • I'll offer him what help i can.

  • Is there a difference?

  • The accident happened at that crossing.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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