Entry
  1. Noun

    squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii)

    Usually written using kana alone

  2. Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern)

    Usually written using kana alonesee 軒忍

  3. color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue)

    see 襲の色目

  4. shinobu-wake (Edo-period women's hairstyle)

    Historical termAbbreviationsee 忍髷

  5. clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern

    Abbreviationsee 忍摺

Also written 荵【しのぶ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

endure, bear, put up with, conceal, secrete, spy, sneak

Kun
しの.ぶしの.ばせる
On
ニン
Strokes
7
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1700 of 2500
Radical
heart
WaniKani
Level 44

Built from

Used in names as

おし

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-3-4SKIP code
4k3.3The Kanji Dictionary
1733.2Four corner code
3558deroo
5fcdUnicode hex code
1-39-06JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1648Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1787New Nelson (John Haig)
2212New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2750Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1407Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1899Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
597Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
642Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1373A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
463Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1060Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
10312PMorohashi
1677A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1414Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1503Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1288Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1122Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1775Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
771Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
604Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ren3Pinyin reading
inKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
44WaniKani level