Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
blue 青 (靑)
Parts:
blue, green
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
589 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 青果 【セイカ】 fruits and vegetables, produce
  • 青雲 【セイウン】 blue sky, erudition, detachment from the world, high rank
  • 回青 【カイセイ】 Mohammedan blue (pigment used in porcelain painting)
  • 黛青 【タイセイ】 blackish blue
  • 青面金剛 【ショウメンコンゴウ】 Shōmen Kongō, Blue-Faced Vajra, blue-skinned deity depicted with two, four or six arms; originally associated with esoteric Buddhism, thought to bring sickness; revered as part of kōshin-machi beliefs during the Edo period
  • 青龍 【セイリョウ】 blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology), Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
  • 緑青 【ロクショウ】 verdigris, green rust, copper rust
  • 花緑青 【ハナロクショウ】 Paris green, emerald green

Kun reading compounds

  • 青 【あお】 blue, azure, green, green light (traffic), black (horse coat color), blue 5-point card, immature, unripe, young
  • 青梅 【あおうめ】 unripe plum
  • プロシア青 【プロシアあお】 Prussian blue
  • 深青 【ふかあお】 dark blue, deep blue, navy blue
  • 青い 【あおい】 blue, azure, green, pale (facial color), gray, grey, unripe, inexperienced
  • 青色 【あおいろ】 blue

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing1
Korean:
cheong

Spanish

  • azul
  • verde
  • pálido

Portuguese

  • verde
  • azul
  • imaturo
  • verde-claro

French

  • bleu
  • vert
36 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
52 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
43 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
390 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5076 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
331 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
273 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
700 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
208 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
208 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
47 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1871 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3084 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1573 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2152 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1548 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42564P Morohashi
2430 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6557 New Nelson (John Haig)
1534 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1654 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
393 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
74 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1446 2001 Kanji
4b4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
5022.7 Four corner code
1-32-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9752 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 瓠 【フクベ】 Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd), gourd (container) made from its fruit, Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)
  • 瓠 【ヒサゴ】 gourd, calabash, bottle gourd, dried gourd, used as flask

Kun reading compounds

  • 瓠 【ひさご】 gourd, calabash, bottle gourd, dried gourd, used as flask
  • 瓠 【ふくべ】 Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd), gourd (container) made from its fruit, Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
piao2
Korean:
pyo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2975 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2668 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2356 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1657 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
21419X Morohashi
3688 New Nelson (John Haig)
2911 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2920 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4e12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-6 SKIP code
1293.0 Four corner code
1-41-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
74e2 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 箪笥 【タンス】 chest of drawers, bureau, cabinet, tansu, dresser
  • 箪食 【タンシ】 bamboo dish of rice
  • 瓢箪 【ヒョウタン】 calabash (Lagenaria siceraria), bottle gourd, gourd (container), calabash
  • 青瓢箪 【アオビョウタン】 green calabash, unripe gourd, scrawny, pale person, sallow-faced person

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dan1
Korean:
dan

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3443 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3366 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
26509X Morohashi
4321 New Nelson (John Haig)
2631 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2675 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-9 SKIP code
8850.6 Four corner code
1-35-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7baa Unicode hex code