Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
grave, tomb
Kun:
はか
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
1337 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 墓石 【ボセキ】 tombstone, gravestone
  • 墓参り 【ハカマイリ】 visit to a grave
  • 陵墓 【リョウボ】 imperial tomb, imperial mausoleum
  • 周堤墓 【シュウテイボ】 grave-site with circular embankment (Jomon period)

Kun reading compounds

  • 墓 【はか】 grave, gravesite, tomb
  • 墓石 【ぼせき】 tombstone, gravestone
  • 火垂るの墓 【ほたるのはか】 Grave of Fireflies (film)
  • 御墓 【みはか】 imperial tomb

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu4
Korean:
myo

Spanish

  • tumba

Portuguese

  • tumba
  • túmulo

French

  • tombe
  • tombeau
869 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
809 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
788 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1349 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4027 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
650 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1165 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1979 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1429 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1518 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1156 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
361 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2930 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1505 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2037 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
236 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5431X Morohashi
2332 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1073 New Nelson (John Haig)
231 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
246 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
781 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1972 2001 Kanji
3k10.18 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
4410.4 Four corner code
1-42-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5893 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
roof
Parts:
Variants:
guard, protect, defend, obey
Kun:
まも.るまも.りもり-もりかみ
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
457 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 守備 【シュビ】 defense, defence
  • 守勢 【シュセイ】 (being on the) defensive
  • 好守 【コウシュ】 good fielding
  • 攻守 【コウシュ】 offense and defense, offence and defence, batting and fielding
  • 守護 【シュゴ】 protection, safeguard, shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
  • 都寺 【ツウス】 one of the six administrators of a Zen temple
  • 居留守 【イルス】 pretending to be out

Kun reading compounds

  • 守る 【まもる】 to protect, to guard, to defend, to keep (i.e. a promise), to abide (by the rules), to observe, to obey, to follow
  • 守り 【まもり】 protection, defense, defence, providence, amulet, charm, talisman
  • 守り神 【まもりがみ】 guardian deity
  • 島主 【とうしゅ】 island chief
  • 山守 【やまもり】 ranger (forest), mountain guardian
  • 守り 【もり】 babysitting, babysitter, protecting, keeping, keeper
  • 守り立てる 【もりたてる】 to support, to back up, to rally round, to revive (e.g. a company), to boost (e.g. morale), to bring up, to raise
  • 井守 【いもり】 newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)
  • 足無井守 【あしなしいもり】 caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
  • 守 【かみ】 director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryō system)
  • 肥後守 【ひごのかみ】 higonokami, type of folding knife with metal handle
  • 出羽守 【でわのかみ】 director of Dewa province, person who frequently makes comparisons with other countries, industries, etc. when complaining about an issue or situation

Readings

Japanese names:
う、 し、 も、 て
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • guardar proteger
  • defender
  • guardar
  • proteger

Portuguese

  • vigia
  • protege
  • defende
  • obedece

French

  • garder
  • protéger
  • défendre
  • obéir
  • respect (des règles)
421 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
316 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
300 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
564 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1282 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
352 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
460 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
284 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
490 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
499 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
537 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
466 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2697 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1375 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1861 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
189 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7071 Morohashi
2173 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1310 New Nelson (John Haig)
186 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
198 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
364 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
270 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
748 2001 Kanji
3m3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
3034.2 Four corner code
1-28-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b88 Unicode hex code