1208 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1768 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
5307 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1345 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1921 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
2831 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
700 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
713 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
915 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1933 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2361 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1214 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1661 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
321 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
46257 | Morohashi |
1882 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6886 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
315 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
337 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1927 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1486 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鯨肉 【ゲイニク】 whale meat
- 鯨飲 【ゲイイン】 drinking hard, drinking like a fish
- 酔鯨 【スイゲイ】 Suigei
- 白鯨 【ハクゲイ】 Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
Kun reading compounds
- 鯨 【くじら】 whale (Cetacea spp.)
- 鯨肉 【げいにく】 whale meat
- タスマニア鯨 【タスマニアくじら】 Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
- 五島鯨 【ごとうくじら】 larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
Readings
- Korean:
- gyeong
Spanish
- ballena
Portuguese
- baleia
French
- baleine
2541 | 2001 Kanji |
11a8.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-11-8 | SKIP code |
2039.6 | Four corner code |
1-23-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
9be8 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
936 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 骨 【コツ】 knack, skill, trick, secret, know-how, the ropes, hang, bone, skeleton, cremated remains (esp. the bones), ashes
- 骨髄 【コツズイ】 bone marrow, medulla, true spirit, one's mind
- 白骨 【ハッコツ】 white (bleached) bone, skeleton
- 鉄骨 【テッコツ】 steel frame, steel beam, steel girder
Kun reading compounds
- 骨 【ほね】 bone, frame, outline, core, backbone, spirit, fortitude, laborious, troublesome, difficult
- 骨抜き 【ほねぬき】 boning (fish or meat), deboning, watering down (a plan, bill, etc.), dilution, emasculation, taking the backbone out of, weakening
- 河骨 【こうほね】 Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)
- お骨 【おこつ】 cremated remains (esp. the bones), ashes
Readings
- Korean:
- gol
Spanish
- hueso
- esqueleto
Portuguese
- esqueleto
- osso
- permanecer
- moldura
French
- os
- squelette
- restes
- charpente
877 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
867 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1081 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
5236 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
971 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1017 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
1213 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1266 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1340 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1104 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1922 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3288 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1699 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2310 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1297 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
45098 | Morohashi |
2654 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6784 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1288 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1383 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
899 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
3646 | 2001 Kanji |
4b6.14 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-6-4 | SKIP code |
7722.7 | Four corner code |
1-25-92 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
9aa8 | Unicode hex code |