Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
boulder, rock, cliff
Kun:
いわ
On:
ガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
787 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 岩盤 【ガンバン】 bedrock
  • 岩石 【ガンセキ】 rock
  • 砂岩 【サガン】 sandstone
  • 石灰岩 【セッカイガン】 limestone

Kun reading compounds

  • 岩 【いわ】 rock, boulder, crag
  • 岩間 【いわま】 among rocks
  • 一枚岩 【いちまいいわ】 monolith, large slab of rock, unity (of a group, organization, etc.), unanimity, solidarity
  • 浮岩 【うきいわ】 rock partially submerged in water, rock partially emerging from the water, pumice stone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
am

Spanish

  • roca

Portuguese

  • rochedo
  • rocha
  • penhedo

French

  • rocher
  • roc
  • falaise
178 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
102 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
249 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
744 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1414 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
821 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
487 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
942 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1345 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1428 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
457 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
538 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2778 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1423 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1921 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
777 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7985 Morohashi
2235 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1461 New Nelson (John Haig)
770 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
832 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
156 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1277 2001 Kanji
3o5.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2260.1 Four corner code
1-20-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ca9 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
corpse
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 砕屑 【サイセツ】 clastic
  • 落屑 【ラクセツ】 desquamation, skin peeling

Kun reading compounds

  • 屑 【くず】 waste, scrap, garbage, dregs, scum, piece of trash, loser
  • 屑穴子 【くずあなご】 duck-billed eel (Nettastoma parviceps)
  • 野菜くず 【やさいくず】 vegetable scraps
  • 大鋸屑 【おがくず】 sawdust

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie4
Korean:
seol

Spanish

  • basura
  • desechos
  • chatarra
  • pedazos

Portuguese

French

1395 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3861 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2680 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
7709X Morohashi
1424 New Nelson (John Haig)
2219 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2330 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3r7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
7722.7 Four corner code
1-22-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c51 Unicode hex code