Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
both, old Japanese coin, counter for carriages (e.g., in a train), two
Kun:
てるふたつ
On:
リョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
247 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 両 【リョウ】 both (hands, parents, sides, etc.), counter for carriages (e.g. in a train), counter for vehicles, ryō, tael, traditional unit of weight (for gold, silver and drugs), 4-5 monme, 15-19 g, ryō, pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold, ryō, traditional measure of fabric, 2 tan, ryō, tael, unit of weight under the ritsuryō system, 1/16 kin, 42-43 g, counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.
  • 両足 【リョウソク】 both feet, both legs
  • 一両 【イチリョウ】 one vehicle, one ryō (an old coin)
  • 十両 【ジュウリョウ】 second highest division, wrestlers of the second highest division

Readings

Japanese names:
もろ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
liang3
Korean:
ryang

Spanish

  • ambos
  • contador de vehículos

Portuguese

  • ambos
  • moeda Japonesa antiga
  • nº de veículos
  • dois

French

  • les deux
  • 2
  • ryou (ancienne monnaie)
  • compteur de wagons
336 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
434 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
411 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
281 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
34 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
859 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
286 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
531 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
200 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
200 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
556 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
15 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4331 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2191 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2949 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1176 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
46 Morohashi
3518 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
23 New Nelson (John Haig)
1168 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1252 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
288 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
275 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3153 2001 Kanji
0a6.11 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-1 SKIP code
1022.7 Four corner code
1-46-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e21 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
dot
Parts:
rust-colored, red, red lead, pills, sincerity
Kun:
On:
タン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1402 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 丹念 【タンネン】 painstaking, careful, meticulous, scrupulous, detailed, elaborate
  • 丹精 【タンセイ】 working earnestly, sincerity, diligence, effort, pains
  • 伊勢丹 【イセタン】 Isetan (department store)
  • 切支丹 【キリシタン】 Christianity (in feudal Japan), Christian

Kun reading compounds

  • 丹 【に】 red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium), vermilion
  • 丹色 【にいろ】 red
  • 海胆 【うに】 sea urchin, seasoned sea urchin eggs
  • 黄丹 【おうだん】 orange color traditionally worn by the crown prince

Readings

Japanese names:
た、 たみ、 まこと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dan1
Korean:
dan

Spanish

  • rojo
  • sin adornos

Portuguese

  • Ferrugem
  • colorido
  • vermelho
  • pílulas

French

  • couleur de rouille
  • rouge
  • minium
  • pilules
1563 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1263 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
163 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1852 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1028 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
79 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1093 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1144 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1813 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
18 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4249 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2147 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2897 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2058 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
99 Morohashi
3441 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
36 New Nelson (John Haig)
2038 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2196 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1016 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3647 2001 Kanji
0a4.34 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-1 SKIP code
7744.0 Four corner code
1-35-16 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e39 Unicode hex code