侍
samurai; waiter; wait upon; serve
8 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1939.
Readings
- ジ (on reading): 侍従 (じじゅう) chamberlain; 侍女 (じじょ) lady attendant
- さむらい (kun reading): 侍 (さむらい) warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); 侍ジャパン (さむらいジャパン) Samurai Japan (national baseball team)
- はべる (kun reading): 侍る (はべる) to wait upon; 侍らす (はべらす) to wait upon
- シ (on reading): 内侍 (ないし) maid of honor
Components
Words using 侍
- 侍従 (じじゅう) chamberlain
- 侍女 (じじょ) lady attendant
- 侍医 (じい) court physician
- 侍従長 (じじゅうちょう) grand chamberlain
- 近侍 (きんじ) attendant
- 侍 (さむらい) warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period)
- 侍ジャパン (さむらいジャパン) Samurai Japan (national baseball team)
- 侍所 (さむらいどころ) Board of Retainers (Kamakura and Muromachi-period government office)
- 地侍 (じざむらい) provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
- 若侍 (わかざむらい) young samurai
- 侍る (はべる) to wait upon
- 侍らす (はべらす) to wait upon
- 侍り (はべり) to wait upon
- 内侍 (ないし) maid of honor
- 侍大将 (さぶらいだいしょう) samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)
- 遠侍 (とおさぶらい) guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period)
- 侍 (さぶらい) man in attendance (on a person of high standing)
48 words in all.