EntryCommon
  1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to become known; to come to light; to be discovered

    see お里が知れる

    杳として行方が知れない。
    Nothing whatever is known of him.
  2. to be known; to be understood

    usu. in the negativesee 気が知れないsee 得体の知れない

  3. to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

    see 高が知れている

  4. to be evident; to be obvious; to go without saying

    as 知れたこと

  5. to be very intense (of worry, hope, etc.); to be severe

    as どんなに…か知れない, どれほど...か知れない, etc.

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

know, wisdom

Kun
し.るし.らせる
On
Strokes
8
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
205 of 2500
Radical
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WaniKani
Level 6

Built from

Used in names as

さとさとるしりしれとものり

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-5-3SKIP code
3d5.14The Kanji Dictionary
8640.0Four corner code
2377deroo
77e5Unicode hex code
1-35-46JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3169Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3978New Nelson (John Haig)
1127New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1446Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
768Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1041Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1223Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1308Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
207A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
636Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
196Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
23935Morohashi
169A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
214Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
214Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
112sakade
229Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
186henshall3
160Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
73crowley
143Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.18busy_people
1394Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1231Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhi1, zhi4Pinyin reading
jiKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level