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Kun reading compounds

  • 杮 【こけら】 chopped wood, wood chips, thin shingles
  • 鱗板 【こけらいた】 thin shingles

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fei4
Korean:
pye

Spanish

Portuguese

French

14496 Morohashi
1-4-4 SKIP code
1-35-03 JIS X 0212-1990 kuten code
676e Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
tree, wood
Kun:
こ-
On:
ボクモク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
317 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 木刀 【ボクトウ】 wooden sword
  • 木偶 【デク】 wooden doll, wooden figure, puppet, blockhead, good-for-nothing, fool
  • 土木 【ドボク】 engineering works, civil engineering, public works
  • 名木 【メイボク】 old tree of historical interest, excellent wood, precious woods, choice wood
  • 木 【モク】 Thursday, wood (first of the five elements)
  • 木材 【モクザイ】 lumber, timber, wood
  • 水木 【スイモク】 Wednesday and Thursday
  • 火水木 【カスイモク】 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Kun reading compounds

  • 木 【き】 tree, shrub, bush, wood, timber, wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
  • 木々 【きぎ】 (many) trees, every tree, all kinds of trees
  • 本木 【もとき】 original stock
  • 青木 【あおき】 Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica), spotted laurel, lush, green tree

Readings

Japanese names:
ぐ、 も、 もと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu4
Korean:
mog, mo

Spanish

  • árbol
  • madera

Portuguese

  • árvore
  • madeira

French

  • arbre
  • bois (matière)
15 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
17 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
69 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
148 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2170 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
17 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
60 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
109 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
22 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
22 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
20 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1045 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4261 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2149 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2901 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
199 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14415 Morohashi
3450 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2531 New Nelson (John Haig)
195 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
207 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
255 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
36 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1864 2001 Kanji
4a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
4090.0 Four corner code
1-44-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6728 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
corpse
Parts:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 砕屑 【サイセツ】 clastic
  • 落屑 【ラクセツ】 desquamation, skin peeling

Kun reading compounds

  • 屑 【くず】 waste, scrap, garbage, dregs, scum, piece of trash, loser
  • 屑穴子 【くずあなご】 duck-billed eel (Nettastoma parviceps)
  • 野菜くず 【やさいくず】 vegetable scraps
  • 大鋸屑 【おがくず】 sawdust

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie4
Korean:
seol

Spanish

  • basura
  • desechos
  • chatarra
  • pedazos

Portuguese

French

1395 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3861 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2680 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
7709X Morohashi
1424 New Nelson (John Haig)
2219 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2330 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3r7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
7722.7 Four corner code
1-22-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c51 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
persimmon
Kun:
かき
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1745 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 熟柿 【ジュクシ】 ripe persimmon

Kun reading compounds

  • 柿 【かき】 kaki, Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
  • 柿色 【かきいろ】 reddish-brown, yellowish-brown
  • 筆柿 【ふでがき】 fudegaki (variety of sweet Japanese persimmon)
  • ピー柿 【ピーかき】 mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
si

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1568 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2231 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
867 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1118 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
806 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14681 Morohashi
2624 New Nelson (John Haig)
2481 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
441 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1844 2001 Kanji
4a5.25 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-5 SKIP code
4092.7 Four corner code
4592.7 Four corner code
1-19-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67ff Unicode hex code