68 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
117 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
106 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
328 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
275 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
106 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
121 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
60 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
137 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
137 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
245 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
141 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2428 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1226 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1690 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
59 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
1340 | Morohashi |
1929 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
343 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
59 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
63 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
408 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
89 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 元 【ゲン】 unknown (e.g. in an equation), element (of a set), yuan (monetary unit of China), New Taiwan dollar, Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368), Yüan dynasty, Mongol dynasty
- 原価 【ゲンカ】 cost price
- 中元 【チュウゲン】 15th day of the 7th lunar month, (last day of) Bon lantern festival, mid-year gift, summer gift, Bon Festival gifts
- 抗原 【コウゲン】 antigen
- 元祖 【ガンソ】 originator, pioneer, inventor, founder, progenitor, primogenitor, founder of a family line
- 元日 【ガンジツ】 New Year's Day
Kun reading compounds
- 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
- 元 【もと】 former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before
- 家元 【いえもと】 head of a school (of music, dance), head family of a school
- 胸元 【むなもと】 breast, chest, pit of the stomach, solar plexus, epigastrium
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ちか、 はじめ、 はる、 ゆき、 よし
- Korean:
- weon
Spanish
- comienzo
- principio
- origen
- jefe
Portuguese
- começo
- tempo anterior
- origem
French
- commencement
- origine
- ancien temps
3057 | 2001 Kanji |
0a4.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-1-3 | SKIP code |
1021.1 | Four corner code |
1-24-21 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5143 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
584 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 赤軍 【セキグン】 Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946), Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Japanese Red Army, JRA
- 赤外線 【セキガイセン】 infrared rays, infrared radiation
- 七赤 【シチセキ】 seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west)
- 日赤 【ニッセキ】 Japanese Red Cross Society (abbr), Nisseki
- 赤銅 【シャクドウ】 shakudo, gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
- 赤銅色 【シャクドウイロ】 brown, tan
Kun reading compounds
- 赤 【あか】 red, crimson, scarlet, red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange), Red (i.e. communist), red light (traffic), red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red, complete, total, perfect, obvious, copper, red 5-point card
- 銅 【どう】 copper (Cu), bronze (medal)
- 紅赤 【べにあか】 beniaka, variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh; product of the Kawagoe region, bright red tinged with yellow
- 真赤 【まあか】 bright red, deep red
- 赤い 【あかい】 red, crimson, scarlet, vermilion, Red, communist
- 赤色 【あかいろ】 red, red color (colour), communism, the left
- 赤らむ 【あからむ】 to become red, to redden, to blush
- 赤らめる 【あからめる】 to blush, to redden
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あ、 あこ、 あま
- Korean:
- jeog
Spanish
- rojo
- enrojecer
- enrojecerse
- sonrojarse
Portuguese
- vermelho
French
- rouge
35 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
51 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
46 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
476 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
4534 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
275 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
254 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
443 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.2 | Japanese for Busy People |
207 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
207 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
46 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1751 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2719 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1389 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1876 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1759 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
36993 | Morohashi |
2193 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
5840 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1743 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1880 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
406 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
68 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1441 | 2001 Kanji |
3b4.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-3-4 | SKIP code |
4023.1 | Four corner code |
4033.1 | Four corner code |
1-32-54 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
8d64 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
865 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 坂路 【ハンロ】 ramp, slope
- 京阪 【ケイハン】 Kyoto and Osaka, Kyoto-Osaka area
- 登坂 【トウハン】 climbing a slope (hill), ascending a hill
Kun reading compounds
- 坂 【さか】 slope, incline, hill, milestone, (age) mark
- 坂道 【さかみち】 hill road
- 海境 【うなさか】 boundary between the world of men and the world of the sea god
- 急な坂 【きゅうなさか】 sudden drop, precipitous slope
Readings
- Japanese names:
- か、 ざ
- Korean:
- pan
Spanish
- cuesta
- pendiente
Portuguese
- rampa
- inclinação
- morro
French
- pente
- incliner
- colline
304 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
394 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
372 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
595 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1061 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
343 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
428 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
390 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
443 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
449 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
605 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
370 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
275 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
172 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
206 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
731 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
4910 | Morohashi |
234 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
985 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
723 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
780 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
282 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1467 | 2001 Kanji |
3b4.7 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-3-4 | SKIP code |
4114.7 | Four corner code |
1-26-68 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5742 | Unicode hex code |