Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:
chant, recite, call upon, yell
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1123 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 唱和 【ショウワ】 cheering in chorus, saying in unison
  • 唱歌 【ショウカ】 singing, song, music class (at pre-WWII schools), song for music classes
  • 斉唱 【セイショウ】 singing in unison, chanting in unison
  • 主唱 【シュショウ】 advocacy, promotion

Kun reading compounds

  • 唱える 【となえる】 to recite, to chant, to cry, to yell, to shout, to advocate, to advance, to preach, to insist

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang4
Korean:
chang

Spanish

  • cantar
  • recitar

Portuguese

  • canto
  • recital
  • gritar

French

  • chant
  • choeur
  • réciter
  • invoquer
  • hurlement
430 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
538 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
508 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1062 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
941 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
814 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1137 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1284 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1646 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1759 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1809 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
306 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
555 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
338 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
418 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
21 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3765 Morohashi
462 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
829 New Nelson (John Haig)
21 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
21 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
568 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3778 2001 Kanji
3d8.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
6606.0 Four corner code
1-30-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5531 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
sparkle, clear, crystal
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1613 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 晶化 【ショウカ】 crystallization, crystallisation
  • 晶光 【ショウコウ】 brilliant light
  • 水晶 【スイショウ】 (rock) crystal, high purity quartz
  • 骸晶 【ガイショウ】 hopper crystal, skeleton crystal

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あき、 あきら、 ひかり、 まさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jing1
Korean:
jeong

Spanish

  • destello
  • brillo
  • cristalización

Portuguese

  • faísca
  • claro
  • cristalino

French

  • étinceler
  • cristal
  • clair
1403 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1698 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2137 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1582 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1408 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1740 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1645 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1758 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1808 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
977 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3122 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1601 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2183 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
22 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14000 Morohashi
2474 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2482 New Nelson (John Haig)
22 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
22 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1546 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3878 2001 Kanji
4c8.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-8 SKIP code
6066.0 Four corner code
1-30-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6676 Unicode hex code