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

10 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
西
chestnut
Kun:
くりおののく
On:
リツ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1550 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 戦々慄々 【センセンリツリツ】 trembling with fear, filled with trepidation
  • 栗鼠 【リス】 squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae), Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
  • リス亜目 【リスアモク】 Sciuromorpha (suborder of rodents)
  • 片栗 【カタクリ】 dogtooth violet (Erythronium japonicum)
  • 実栗 【ミクリ】 branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum), simplestem bur-reed

Kun reading compounds

  • 栗 【くり】 Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
  • 栗石 【くりいし】 construction stone (approx. 10-15 cm in diameter), chestnut-sized pebble
  • 片栗 【かたくり】 dogtooth violet (Erythronium japonicum)
  • 実栗 【みくり】 branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum), simplestem bur-reed

Readings

Japanese names:
くる、 りっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ryul

Spanish

  • castaña
  • estricto

Portuguese

French

  • châtaigne
1571 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4275 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1219 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2111 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3280 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1694 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2303 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1623 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14695 Morohashi
2649 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2662 New Nelson (John Haig)
1609 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1735 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a6.32 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
1090.4 Four corner code
1-23-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6817 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
rat, mouse
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鼠疫 【ソエキ】 plague, pest
  • 鼠害 【ソガイ】 damage by rats or mice
  • 海鼠 【ナマコ】 sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
  • 飛鼠 【ヒソ】 bat (animal)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠穴 【ねずみあな】 rathole, mousehole
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 臭鼠 【においねずみ】 muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠子 【ねずこ】 Japanese arborvitae (Thuja standishii)
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 梅鼠 【うめねず】 grayish pink, rose grey

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu3
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • ratón
  • rata

Portuguese

French

5417 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2430 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3340 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
48390 Morohashi
2693 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7078 New Nelson (John Haig)
2065 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2856 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-7 SKIP code
2-5-7 SKIP code
7771.7 Four corner code
1-33-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9f20 Unicode hex code