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忠

8 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
｜ 口 心
loyalty, fidelity, faithfulness
On:
チュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1113 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 忠 【チュウ】 loyalty, devotion, fidelity, faithfulness, inspector of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (ritsuryō system)
  • 忠臣 【チュウシン】 loyal retainer, loyal subject
  • 誠忠 【セイチュウ】 loyalty
  • 不忠 【フチュウ】 disloyalty, infidelity

Readings

Japanese names:
きよし、 たた、 ただ、 ただし、 なお
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhong1
Korean:
chung

Spanish

  • lealtad
  • fidelidad

Portuguese

  • lealdade
  • fidelidade

French

  • loyauté
  • fidélité
842 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
948 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
936 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1040 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1653 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
632 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1289 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
705 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1348 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1431 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
758 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
773 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3087 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1575 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2154 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
609 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10353 Morohashi
2433 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1801 New Nelson (John Haig)
602 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
648 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
869 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1658 2001 Kanji
4k4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
5033.6 Four corner code
1-35-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5fe0 Unicode hex code

孝

7 strokes
Radical:
child, seed 子
Parts:
子 老
filial piety, child's respect
On:
コウ、 キョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
1030 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 孝 【コウ】 filial piety
  • 孝行 【コウコウ】 filial piety, showing devotion (to someone)
  • 親不孝 【オヤフコウ】 lack of filial piety, disobedience to one's parents
  • 不孝 【フコウ】 undutifulness to one's parents, lack of filial piety, (the crime of) cursing one's parents, disowning one's child
  • 孝 【コウ】 filial piety
  • 不孝 【フコウ】 undutifulness to one's parents, lack of filial piety, (the crime of) cursing one's parents, disowning one's child

Readings

Japanese names:
たか、 たかし、 のり、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao4
Korean:
hyo

Spanish

  • devoción filial
  • deber filial

Portuguese

  • piedade filial
  • respeito pelas crianças

French

  • piété filiale
  • respect des anciens
781 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
870 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
860 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1249 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
773 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
865 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1204 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
541 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
542 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
551 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
738 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
459 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3973 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2044 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2761 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1261 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6952 Morohashi
3205 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1289 New Nelson (John Haig)
1253 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1342 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
850 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1447 2001 Kanji
2k4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-3 SKIP code
3-4-3 SKIP code
4-6-4 SKIP code
4-7-4 SKIP code
2-4-2 SKIP code
3-4-2 SKIP code
4440.7 Four corner code
1-25-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b5d Unicode hex code

敦

12 strokes
Radical:
rap 攴 (攵)
Parts:
亠 口 子 乞 攵
industry, kindliness
Kun:
あつ.い
On:
トン、 タイ、 ダン、 チョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1695 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 敦厚 【トンコウ】 sincerity and kindheartedness, honesty and simplicity
  • 敦朴 【トンボク】 honest and homely, simple

Readings

Japanese names:
あつ、 あつし、 つる、 のぶ、 のり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dun1, dui4
Korean:
don, toe

Spanish

  • bondad
  • benevolencia

Portuguese

French

2053 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1976 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1690 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2081 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2128 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1112 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1511 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
13276 Morohashi
1693 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2349 New Nelson (John Haig)
2931 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2938 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4i7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-4 SKIP code
1-7-4 SKIP code
0844.0 Four corner code
1-38-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6566 Unicode hex code

化

4 strokes
Radical:
spoon 匕
Parts:
化 匕
change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
Kun:
ば.ける、 ば.かす、 ふ.ける、 け.する
On:
カ、 ケ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
89 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 化 【カ】 change to ..., becoming ..., making into ..., -ization, -ification
  • 化学 【カガク】 chemistry
  • 機械化 【キカイカ】 mechanization, mechanisation
  • 民営化 【ミンエイカ】 privatization, privatisation
  • 化粧 【ケショウ】 make-up, makeup, cosmetics, decoration, dressing, veneer
  • 化粧水 【ケショウスイ】 skin lotion, face lotion
  • 応化 【オウゲ】 assumption of a suitable form (by a buddha or bodhisattva)
  • 教化 【キョウケ】 guidance, teaching people and leading them to Buddhism

Kun reading compounds

  • 化ける 【ばける】 to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.), to assume the shape of, to turn oneself into, to transform oneself into, to disguise oneself as, to change radically, to metamorphose, to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
  • 化かす 【ばかす】 to bewitch, to confuse, to enchant, to delude
  • 老ける 【ふける】 to age, to grow old (esp. in appearance), to show marks of age

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua4
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • cambiar
  • transformarse
  • modificarse
  • disfrazarse

Portuguese

  • mudança
  • tomar a forma de
  • influência
  • encantar
  • iludir
  • seduzir
  • -isação

French

  • transformation
  • prendre la forme de
  • maquillage
  • influence
  • fantôme
  • enchanter
  • tromper
  • chimie
  • -isation
163 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
258 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
238 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
100 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
350 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
76 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
378 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
56 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.19 Japanese for Busy People
254 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
254 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
414 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
55 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
22 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1017 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2572X Morohashi
21 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
580 New Nelson (John Haig)
1008 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1083 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
104 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
242 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2156 2001 Kanji
2a2.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-2 SKIP code
2121.0 Four corner code
2421.0 Four corner code
1-18-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5316 Unicode hex code

駅

14 strokes
Radical:
horse 馬
Parts:
丶 尸 杰 馬
Variants:
驛
station
On:
エキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
724 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 駅 【エキ】 railway station, train station, staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan), counter for railway stations and bus stations
  • 駅員 【エキイン】 (train) station attendant, station employee, station staff
  • 宿駅 【シュクエキ】 relay station, post station, stage
  • 終着駅 【シュウチャクエキ】 terminal station

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
yeog

Spanish

  • estación

Portuguese

  • estação

French

  • gare
158 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
253 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
233 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
384 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5199 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
189 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
101 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2172 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.12 Japanese for Busy People
284 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
284 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
56 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1915 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1184 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1618 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2003 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44633P Morohashi
1822 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6735 New Nelson (John Haig)
1984 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2138 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
426 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3462 2001 Kanji
10a4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-4 SKIP code
7738.7 Four corner code
1-17-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
99c5 Unicode hex code