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杜

7 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
土 木
woods, grove
Kun:
もり、 ふさ.ぐ、 やまなし
On:
ト、 トウ、 ズ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2062 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 途絶 【トゼツ】 stoppage, interruption, cessation, suspension
  • 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 杜氏 【トウジ】 chief brewer at a sake brewery
  • 杜撰 【ズサン】 careless, sloppy, faulty, using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing), piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
  • 杜撰脱漏 【ズサンダツロウ】 careless (slipshod) and with many omissions

Kun reading compounds

  • 森 【もり】 forest, shrine grove
  • 杜の都 【もりのみやこ】 Capital of Trees (nickname for Sendai City)
  • 鎮守の杜 【ちんじゅのもり】 grove of the village shrine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du4
Korean:
du

Spanish

  • bosque
  • arboleda
  • bloquear
  • cerrar

Portuguese

French

2188 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
423 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1030 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
559 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
739 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14477 Morohashi
835 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2560 New Nelson (John Haig)
2500 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2562 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4491.0 Four corner code
1-37-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
675c Unicode hex code

鵑

18 strokes
Radical:
bird 鳥
Parts:
口 月 杰 鳥
cuckoo
On:
ケン

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
juan1
Korean:
gyeon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5351 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
46924 Morohashi
6967 New Nelson (John Haig)
11b7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-11 SKIP code
6722.7 Four corner code
1-83-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d51 Unicode hex code

花

7 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
化 匕 艾
Variants:
芲
flower
Kun:
はな
On:
カ、 ケ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
578 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 花形 【ハナガタ】 floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star (actor, player, etc.)
  • 花園 【ハナゾノ】 flower garden
  • 献花 【ケンカ】 flower offering, floral tribute, laying flowers
  • 紅花 【ベニバナ】 safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), dyer's safflower
  • 花かご 【ハナカゴ】 flower basket, flower basket (or plate) used for flower-scattering rituals
  • 花瓶 【ケビョウ】 vase used to hold flower offerings (often made of gilded copper)
  • 天花 【テンゲ】 flowers that bloom in the heavens, paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image

Kun reading compounds

  • 花 【はな】 flower, blossom, bloom, petal, cherry blossom, beauty, blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms), ikebana, hanafuda, (the) best, glorious, lovely
  • 花形 【はながた】 floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star (actor, player, etc.)
  • 菜の花 【なのはな】 rape blossoms, rapeseed flowers
  • 紅花 【べにばな】 safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), dyer's safflower

Readings

Japanese names:
わ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua1
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • flor

Portuguese

  • flor

French

  • fleur
43 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
70 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
9 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
551 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3909 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
328 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
81 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
481 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
255 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
255 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
314 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
641 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2740 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1405 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1894 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1018 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30734P Morohashi
2211 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4980 New Nelson (John Haig)
1009 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1084 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
69 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1956 2001 Kanji
3k4.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
4421.4 Four corner code
1-18-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82b1 Unicode hex code