Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
tree, wood
Kun:
こ-
On:
ボクモク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
317 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 木刀 【ボクトウ】 wooden sword
  • 木偶 【デク】 wooden doll, wooden figure, puppet, blockhead, good-for-nothing, fool
  • 土木 【ドボク】 engineering works, civil engineering, public works
  • 名木 【メイボク】 old tree of historical interest, excellent wood, precious woods, choice wood
  • 木 【モク】 Thursday, wood (first of the five elements)
  • 木材 【モクザイ】 lumber, timber, wood
  • 水木 【スイモク】 Wednesday and Thursday
  • 火水木 【カスイモク】 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Kun reading compounds

  • 木 【き】 tree, shrub, bush, wood, timber, wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
  • 木々 【きぎ】 (many) trees, every tree, all kinds of trees
  • 本木 【もとき】 original stock
  • 青木 【あおき】 Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica), spotted laurel, lush, green tree

Readings

Japanese names:
ぐ、 も、 もと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu4
Korean:
mog, mo

Spanish

  • árbol
  • madera

Portuguese

  • árvore
  • madeira

French

  • arbre
  • bois (matière)
15 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
17 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
69 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
148 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2170 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
17 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
60 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
109 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
22 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
22 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
20 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1045 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4261 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2149 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2901 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
199 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14415 Morohashi
3450 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2531 New Nelson (John Haig)
195 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
207 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
255 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
36 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1864 2001 Kanji
4a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
4090.0 Four corner code
1-44-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6728 Unicode hex code

12 strokes (also 11)
Radical:
cow 牛 (牜)
Parts:
rhinoceros
On:
サイセイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2426 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 犀 【サイ】 rhinoceros
  • 犀角 【サイカク】 rhinoceros horn
  • 一角犀 【イッカクサイ】 great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), Indian rhinoceros
  • インド犀 【インドサイ】 Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), great one-horned rhinoceros
  • 金木犀 【キンモクセイ】 fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus)
  • 銀木犀 【ギンモクセイ】 tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans), fragrant olive, sweet olive

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1
Korean:
seo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1397 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1803 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3900 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2710 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
20045 Morohashi
3546 New Nelson (John Haig)
2069 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2219 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3r9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-9 SKIP code
7725.1 Four corner code
1-26-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7280 Unicode hex code