Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
orphan, alone
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1239 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 孤 【コ】 being alone, solitude, loneliness, orphan
  • 孤児 【コジ】 orphan, person without friends
  • 遺孤 【イコ】 orphan

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu1
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • huérfano
  • sólo

Portuguese

  • órfão

French

  • orphelin
  • seul
1229 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1440 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1270 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1768 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1205 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1480 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1577 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1381 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
462 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
426 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
263 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
317 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1897 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6966X Morohashi
356 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1293 New Nelson (John Haig)
1879 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2024 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1225 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3562 2001 Kanji
2c6.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
1-2-6 SKIP code
1-2-5 SKIP code
1243.0 Four corner code
1-24-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b64 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
Variants:
wild goose
Kun:
かりかりがね
On:
ガン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 雁 【ガン】 wild goose, glans, head of a penis
  • 雁 【ガン】 Gan, The Wild Geese (1913 novel by Mori Ōgai)
  • ハワイ雁 【ハワイガン】 Hawaiian goose (Branta sandvicensis), nene
  • 鴻雁 【コウガン】 wild geese, large geese and small geese

Kun reading compounds

  • 雁 【がん】 wild goose, glans, head of a penis
  • 雁が音 【かりがね】 call of a wild goose, wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus), tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro), high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro)
  • 雁が音 【かりがね】 call of a wild goose, wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus), tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro), high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro)
  • 雁金草 【かりがねそう】 blue spirea (Caryopteris divaricata), blue mist shrub

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan4
Korean:
an

Spanish

  • ganso salvaje
  • oca salvaje

Portuguese

French

830 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3741 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2597 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
41960 Morohashi
6498 New Nelson (John Haig)
2150 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2273 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2p10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-10 SKIP code
7121.4 Four corner code
1-20-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96c1 Unicode hex code