EntryCommon
  1. Godan verb with 'bu' ending, Transitive verb

    to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to be nostalgic for

    ミサは、食べたり飲んだりしてイエスキリストを偲ぶカトリックの儀式だ。
    Mass is a Catholic ceremony of remembering Jesus Christ by eating and drinking.
  2. to imagine; to guess; to infer

    Usually written using kana aloneusu. in the passive as しのばれる

  3. V4b, Transitive verb

    to admire (e.g. beauty); to praise; to commend

    Archaic

Also written 慕ぶ【しのぶ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

recollect, remember

Kun
しの.ぶ
On
サイ
Strokes
11
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2350 of 2500
Radical
person

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Dictionary and index codes (19)
CodeReference
1-2-9SKIP code
2a9.7The Kanji Dictionary
2623.0Four corner code
5072Unicode hex code
1-28-37JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
499Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
266New Nelson (John Haig)
135New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
153Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
103Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
118Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2129Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2256Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
895Morohashi
2021Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2064Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
si1Pinyin reading
siKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)