Meanings
- waiter
- samurai
- wait upon
- serve
Strokes8
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1939 of 2,500
Kanji N1
侍: waiter, samurai, wait upon
侍 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning waiter, samurai, wait upon, written with 8 strokes. It is read ジ, シ (on) and さむらい, はべる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 侍 (さむらい, warrior) and 侍従 (じじゅう, chamberlain).
侍
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- ジ
- シ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- さむらい
- はべる
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
Watch the stroke order
Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.
Now draw it
Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.
0 / 8
Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 8. Start at the dot.
Common words with 侍
The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.
- 侍さむらいJLPT N1
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period)
Ready to start?
It's free to start, from hiragana to your first kanji. Get in early and your account keeps every step.
Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.