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彫

11 strokes
Radical:
bristle, beard 彡
Parts:
冂 口 土 彡
carve, engrave, chisel
Kun:
ほ.る、 -ぼ.り
On:
チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1533 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 彫刻 【チョウコク】 carving, engraving, sculpture
  • 彫金 【チョウキン】 chasing, metal carving, metal engraving
  • 木彫 【モクチョウ】 wood carving, wooden sculpture, woodcraft

Kun reading compounds

  • 彫る 【ほる】 to carve, to engrave, to sculpt, to chisel, to tattoo

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
diao1
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • esculpir
  • grabar
  • cincelar

Portuguese

  • cinzelar
  • esculpir
  • cinzel

French

  • sculpter
  • graver
  • ciseler
1590 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1366 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
236 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1167 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1274 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1412 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1149 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1202 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1358 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
617 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2117 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1104 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1503 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1726 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9995P Morohashi
1683 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1719 New Nelson (John Haig)
1710 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1846 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1430 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3660 2001 Kanji
3j8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-3 SKIP code
7222.2 Four corner code
1-36-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5f6b Unicode hex code

像

14 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
一 化 勹 口 豕
statue, picture, image, figure, portrait
On:
ゾウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
856 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 像 【ゾウ】 image, figure, statue, picture, portrait, figure, form, shape, appearance, image
  • 像主 【ゾウシュ】 subject (of a portrait or bust), a person posing for a portrait or bust, (historically) patron, someone who commissions a Buddhist temple or work of art
  • 実像 【ジツゾウ】 real image, real form, real-life image, true picture, actual conditions, actual circumstances
  • 将来像 【ショウライゾウ】 vision of the future

Readings

Japanese names:
かた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiang4
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • estatua
  • imagen
  • figura

Portuguese

  • estátua
  • gravura
  • imagem
  • figura
  • retrato

French

  • statue
  • image
  • figure
  • portrait
  • représentation
664 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
762 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
740 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
906 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
540 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
524 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
334 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2061 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
740 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
753 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
940 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
133 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
187 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
123 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
144 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1996 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1084 Morohashi
166 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
308 New Nelson (John Haig)
1977 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2131 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
796 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2151 2001 Kanji
2a12.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-12 SKIP code
2723.2 Four corner code
1-33-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
50cf Unicode hex code