Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
Variants:
favor, blessing, grace, kindness
Kun:
めぐ.むめぐ.み
On:
ケイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
925 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 恵雨 【ケイウ】 welcome rain
  • 恵泉女学園大学 【ケイセンジョガクエンダイガク】 Keisen University
  • 互恵 【ゴケイ】 reciprocity, mutual benefit
  • 慈恵 【ジケイ】 mercy and love
  • 恵 【エ】 wisdom, enlightenment, prajñā (one of the three divisions of the noble eightfold path), wisdom
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 悪知恵 【ワルヂエ】 craft, cunning, guile, serpentine wisdom
  • 付け知恵 【ツケヂエ】 hint, suggestion

Kun reading compounds

  • 恵む 【めぐむ】 to bless, to show mercy to, to give (money, etc.)
  • 恵み 【めぐみ】 blessing, grace
  • 恵みの雨 【めぐみのあめ】 welcome rain, merciful rain, blessed rain, rain after a long dry period
  • 天の恵み 【てんのめぐみ】 God's gift, God's blessing, grace of God, godsend

Readings

Japanese names:
あや、 け、 さと、 さとし、 しげ、 へい、 み、 やす
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hui4
Korean:
hye

Spanish

  • favor
  • bendición
  • gracia
  • bondad
  • ser bondadoso
  • favorecer

Portuguese

  • favor
  • benção
  • graça
  • gentileza

French

  • bénéficier de
  • faveur divine
  • grâce
  • gentillesse
1196 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
875 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1681 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1498 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
540 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1226 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1219 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1282 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1077 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
781 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3293 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1704 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2315 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
619 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10618P Morohashi
2659 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1847 New Nelson (John Haig)
612 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
659 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1331 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1558 2001 Kanji
4k6.16 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
5033.6 Four corner code
1-23-35 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6075 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
compare, compete
Parts:
Variants:
compare, race, ratio, Philippines
Kun:
くら.べる
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
329 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 比 【ヒ】 ratio, proportion, match, equal, equivalent, comparison, compared with ..., relative to ..., Philippines, explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
  • 比較 【ヒカク】 comparison
  • 口径比 【コウケイヒ】 aperture ratio (inverse of the f-number), relative aperture
  • 正比 【セイヒ】 direct ratio

Kun reading compounds

  • 比べる 【くらべる】 to compare, to make a comparison, to compete, to vie

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 ぴっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bi3, bi4
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • comparación
  • proporción
  • relación
  • Filipinas
  • comparar

Portuguese

  • comparar
  • corrida
  • razão
  • Phillipines

French

  • comparer
  • compétition
  • proportion
  • Philippines
697 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
792 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
771 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
557 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2470 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
589 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
660 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
137 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
798 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
812 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
276 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1146 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
29 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
14 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
14 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
456 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16743 Morohashi
26 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3010 New Nelson (John Haig)
447 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
482 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
450 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
643 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1256 2001 Kanji
2m3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-2 SKIP code
1-3-2 SKIP code
2171.0 Four corner code
2111.0 Four corner code
1-40-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bd4 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
ought, by all means, necessarily
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 須恵器 【スエキ】 Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era)
  • 須義 【スギ】 cobia (Rachycentron canadum), sergeant fish
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 提宇子 【ダイウス】 God
  • 須髯 【シュゼン】 beard
  • 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)

Kun reading compounds

  • 須らく 【すべからく】 absolutely (ought to), by all means, all, entirely

Readings

Japanese names:
もとむ、 ぞ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu1
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • instante
  • desear
  • anhelar
  • esperar

Portuguese

French

  • nécessité
  • certainement
  • devrait faire
936 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1592 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1946 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1544 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2263 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1531 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
700 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
419 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
526 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1734 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43352 Morohashi
574 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6618 New Nelson (John Haig)
1718 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1854 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3j9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
2128.6 Four corner code
1-31-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9808 Unicode hex code

17 strokes
Radical:
fish
Parts:

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Kun reading compounds

  • 鮫 【さめ】 shark
  • 鮫皮 【さめがわ】 shagreen (from a shark or stingray), sharkskin, shark leather
  • 藪雨 【やぶさめ】 Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao1
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • tiburón

Portuguese

French

5294 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2672 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2354 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
46127 Morohashi
6863 New Nelson (John Haig)
2821 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2836 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-6 SKIP code
2034.8 Four corner code
1-27-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9bab Unicode hex code