Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
sociable, kind, courteous, hospitable, cordial
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1135 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 懇談 【コンダン】 friendly chat, relaxed conversation, informal meeting
  • 懇親 【コンシン】 friendship, intimacy
  • 米懇 【ベイコン】 round table conference on rice price
  • 昵懇 【ジッコン】 intimacy, familiarity, closeness

Kun reading compounds

  • 懇ろ 【ねんごろ】 kind, courteous, hospitable, warmly respectful, intimate, becoming intimate, having an intimate relationship (sometimes esp. a homosexual relationship)
  • 懇ろになる 【ねんごろになる】 to become intimate with (e.g. a woman), to become acquainted

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ken3
Korean:
gan

Spanish

  • sociable
  • amable
  • cortés
  • hospitalario
  • cordial

Portuguese

  • sociável
  • espécie
  • cordial
  • hospitaleira
  • cortês

French

  • sociable
  • gentil
  • courtois
  • hospitalier
  • cordial
1282 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1170 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1781 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1171 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1325 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1135 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1187 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1799 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
804 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3606 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1851 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2517 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1990 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11326 Morohashi
2899 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2002 New Nelson (John Haig)
1970 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2123 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1868 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2058 2001 Kanji
4k13.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-13-4 SKIP code
2733.3 Four corner code
1-26-09 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
61c7 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
write
Kun:
か.く-が.き-がき
On:
ショ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
169 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 書 【ショ】 book, document, calligraphy (esp. Chinese), penmanship, handwriting, letter, note
  • 書院 【ショイン】 drawing room, study, writing alcove, publishing house
  • 投書 【トウショ】 letter (e.g. of complaint), letter to the editor, letter from a reader, contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
  • 議定書 【ギテイショ】 protocol

Kun reading compounds

  • 書く 【かく】 to write, to compose, to pen, to draw, to paint

Readings

Japanese names:
かき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu1
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • escritura
  • escrito
  • escribir

Portuguese

  • escrever

French

  • écrire
92 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
159 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
142 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
130 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3719 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
70 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
58 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1216 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
131 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
131 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
181 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
998 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1703 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2314 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
333 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14294 Morohashi
2658 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2463 New Nelson (John Haig)
327 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
349 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
121 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
197 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1678 2001 Kanji
4c6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
5060.1 Four corner code
1-29-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66f8 Unicode hex code