Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
spoon
Parts:
north
Kun:
きた
On:
ホク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
153 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 北欧 【ホクオウ】 Northern Europe, Nordic countries, Scandinavia
  • 北緯 【ホクイ】 north latitude
  • 極北 【キョクホク】 extreme north, North Pole
  • 西北 【セイホク】 north-west

Kun reading compounds

  • 北 【きた】 north, the North, northern territories, North Korea, north wind
  • 北アイルランド 【きたアイルランド】 Northern Ireland
  • 西北 【せいほく】 north-west

Readings

Japanese names:
きら、 ほう、 ほっ、 ほつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei3
Korean:
bug, bae

Spanish

  • Norte
  • huir
  • perder

Portuguese

  • norte

French

  • nord
139 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
224 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
205 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
103 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
751 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
156 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
24 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
138 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
73 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
73 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
42 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
231 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
230 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
147 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
176 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
454 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2574 Morohashi
197 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
581 New Nelson (John Haig)
445 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
480 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
282 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
115 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1256 2001 Kanji
0a5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-2 SKIP code
1111.0 Four corner code
1-43-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5317 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
woods, grove
Kun:
もりふさ.ぐやまなし
On:
トウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2062 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 途絶 【トゼツ】 stoppage, interruption, cessation, suspension
  • 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 杜氏 【トウジ】 chief brewer at a sake brewery
  • 杜撰 【ズサン】 careless, sloppy, faulty, using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing), piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
  • 杜撰脱漏 【ズサンダツロウ】 careless (slipshod) and with many omissions

Kun reading compounds

  • 森 【もり】 forest, shrine grove
  • 杜の都 【もりのみやこ】 Capital of Trees (nickname for Sendai City)
  • 鎮守の杜 【ちんじゅのもり】 grove of the village shrine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du4
Korean:
du

Spanish

  • bosque
  • arboleda
  • bloquear
  • cerrar

Portuguese

French

2188 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
423 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1030 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
559 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
739 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14477 Morohashi
835 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2560 New Nelson (John Haig)
2500 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2562 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4491.0 Four corner code
1-37-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
675c Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
husband, man
Kun:
おっとそれ
On:
フウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
335 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 夫妻 【フサイ】 husband and wife, married couple
  • 夫婦 【フウフ】 married couple, husband and wife, man and wife
  • 継夫 【ケイフ】 second husband
  • 炊夫 【スイフ】 male cook
  • 夫婦 【フウフ】 married couple, husband and wife, man and wife
  • 夫子 【フウシ】 teacher, wise man, sage, master, Confucius, the person concerned, you, he, she
  • 一工夫 【ヒトクフウ】 a bit of contrivance, some fiddling, a little ingenuity
  • 創意工夫 【ソウイクフウ】 ingenuity, inventiveness, creative originality
  • 夫人 【フジン】 wife, Mrs, madam, wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.), consort of the emperor
  • 賦役 【フエキ】 slave labour, slave labor, compulsory service, forced labour, forced labor, exacted service
  • 大夫 【ダイブ】 high steward, grand master
  • 右京大夫 【ウキョウノダイブ】 Ukyō no Daibu (title under the ritsuryō system), high steward

Kun reading compounds

  • 夫 【おっと】 husband
  • 夫選び 【おっとえらび】 choosing a husband
  • DV夫 【ディーブイおっと】 (physically) abusive husband, wife beater
  • 元夫 【もとおっと】 ex-husband, former husband
  • 其れ其れ 【それぞれ】 each, respectively

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 と、 ゆう、 よ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu1, fu2
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • marido
  • hombre
  • esposo

Portuguese

  • marido
  • homem

French

  • mari
  • homme
501 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
601 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
573 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
265 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
164 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
51 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
445 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
104 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
315 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
315 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
595 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
411 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4271 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2157 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2909 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
846 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5835 Morohashi
3460 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1136 New Nelson (John Haig)
838 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
901 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
220 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
445 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1463 2001 Kanji
0a4.31 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
5003.0 Four corner code
1-41-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
592b Unicode hex code