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光

6 strokes
Radical:
legs 儿
Parts:
一 儿 尚
Variants:
灮 炗
ray, light
Kun:
ひか.る、 ひかり
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
527 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 光学 【コウガク】 optics
  • 光栄 【コウエイ】 honour, honor, glory, privilege
  • 脚光 【キャッコウ】 footlight, limelight
  • 発光 【ハッコウ】 emission (of light), radiation (of light), luminescence

Kun reading compounds

  • 光る 【ひかる】 to shine, to glitter, to be bright
  • 光る棒 【ひかるぼう】 glowstick, neon light stick
  • 光 【ひかり】 light, illumination, ray, beam, gleam, glow, happiness, hope, influence, power, vision, eyesight, optical fiber, optical fibre
  • 光り輝く 【ひかりかがやく】 to shine, to glitter
  • 越光 【こしひかり】 Koshihikari (variety of rice)
  • 柔らかな光 【やわらかなひかり】 soft light

Readings

Japanese names:
あき、 あきら、 こお、 てる、 ひこ、 み、 みつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guang1
Korean:
gwang

Spanish

  • rayo
  • luz
  • paisaje
  • honor
  • brillar
  • brillo

Portuguese

  • raio
  • luz

French

  • rayon
  • lumière
72 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
129 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
116 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
417 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1358 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
217 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
123 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
281 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
138 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
138 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
464 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
143 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3043 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1550 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2121 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
120 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1350 Morohashi
2391 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
349 New Nelson (John Haig)
119 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
125 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
345 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
121 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1057 2001 Kanji
3n3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-2 SKIP code
2-3-3 SKIP code
9021.1 Four corner code
1-24-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5149 Unicode hex code

茸

9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
艾 耳
mushroom
Kun:
きのこ、 たけ、 しげ.る
On:
ジョウ、 ニュ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 毛茸 【モウジョウ】 hair, trichome
  • 耳茸 【ジジョウ】 ear polyp, aural polyp

Kun reading compounds

  • 茸 【きのこ】 mushroom
  • キノコ狩り 【きのこがり】 mushrooming, mushroom picking, mushroom gathering
  • 幻覚キノコ 【げんかくきのこ】 hallucinogenic mushroom, magic mushroom
  • 毒キノコ 【どくキノコ】 toadstool, poisonous mushroom
  • 茸 【きのこ】 mushroom
  • キノコ狩り 【きのこがり】 mushrooming, mushroom picking, mushroom gathering
  • 藍茸 【あいたけ】 green-cracking russula (Russula virescens), quilted green russula, green brittlegill
  • 舞茸 【まいたけ】 hen-of-the-woods (species of polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
rong2, rong3
Korean:
yong

Spanish

  • seta
  • hongo
  • champiñón

Portuguese

French

3935 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
925 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2809 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1949 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30918X Morohashi
5026 New Nelson (John Haig)
2394 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2475 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
2-4-6 SKIP code
4440.1 Four corner code
1-34-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8338 Unicode hex code

蝿

15 strokes
Radical:
insect 虫
Parts:
乙 勹 田 虫 亀
Variants:
蠅
fly
Kun:
はえ、 はい
On:
ヨウ

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 蠅頭 【ヨウトウ】 small characters, tiny handwriting, as small as the head of a fly, small profit
  • 青蠅 【アオバエ】 bluebottle fly, little pest

Kun reading compounds

  • 蠅 【はえ】 fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha), person of no worth, pisher, scrub
  • はえ座 【はえざ】 Musca (constellation), the Fly
  • 護摩の灰 【ごまのはい】 thief posing as fellow traveller (traveler)
  • 蝿帳 【はいちょう】 fly-net cupboard
  • ハエ取り 【はえとり】 catching flies, fly-catcher, flytrap, flypaper, jumping spider
  • 護摩の灰 【ごまのはい】 thief posing as fellow traveller (traveler)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ying2
Korean:
seung

Spanish

  • mosca

Portuguese

French

0 Morohashi
5344 New Nelson (John Haig)
2685 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2725 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
5711.7 Four corner code
1-39-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
877f Unicode hex code