16 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

awake, be disillusioned, sober up

Kun'yomi
  • to awaken ②to bring to one's senses ③to sober up ④to dampen
  • to wake ②to become sober ③to come to one's senses
On'yomi
  • セイ

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

セイ 77.8%
ますめる 22.2%

Character Breakdown

awake, be disillusioned, sober up
セイ さ.ます (11th)
west, bird, sign of the bird
とり ユウ なが (Kentei Pre-1, N1)
west, Spain
にし サイ セイ (2nd, N5)
high & level, lofty, bald
コツ (Kentei 1)
one, one radical (no.1)
イチ いっ ひと- (1st, N5)
legs radical (no. 10)
ジン ニン がい (Kentei 1)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)
star, spot, dot
ほし セイ ショウ (2nd, N2)
day, sun, Japan
ひ にっ ニチ (1st, N5)
life, genuine, birth
セイ い.きる う.まれる (1st, N5)

Common Words

waking up ②disillusion
stimulant (e.g. psychoactive drugs like methamphetamine, ritalin, etc.)
half asleep and half awake
half awake and half asleep
to have one's fun spoiled
a teetotaler doesn't know (how tasty) water is when waking up after having been drunk
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References

Unicode hex code 9192
JIS X 0208 1-32-35
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 4796
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 6185
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 2033
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 1457
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2750
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 1677
O'Neill, P.G. Japanese Names 2501
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 39936
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 2021
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 7e9.2
Four corner code 1661.4