536 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
1394 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
215 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
2212 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
884 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1419 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
869 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
696 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
709 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
970 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1075 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
1075 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
580 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
769 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
793 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
14516 | Morohashi |
864 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2592 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
785 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
848 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
483 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
508 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
471 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 松竹梅 【ショウチクバイ】 pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping), high, middle and low (ranking), top, middle and bottom, upper, medium, lower, first, second and third (class)
- 鰹 【カツオ】 skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), oceanic bonito, victorfish
- 老松 【ロウショウ】 old pine tree
- 翠松 【スイショウ】 verdant pine, green pine
Kun reading compounds
- 松 【まつ】 pine tree (Pinus spp.), highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
- 松下電工 【まつしたでんこう】 Matsushita Electric Works
- 赤松 【あかまつ】 Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora), Japanese umbrella pine, tanyosho pine
- 浜松 【はままつ】 Hamamatsu (city)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- おお、 しょ、 ま、 まっ
- Korean:
- song
Spanish
- pino
Portuguese
- pinheiro
French
- pin
1871 | 2001 Kanji |
4a4.16 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-4-4 | SKIP code |
4893.2 | Four corner code |
1-30-30 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
677e | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
865 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 坂路 【ハンロ】 ramp, slope
- 京阪 【ケイハン】 Kyoto and Osaka, Kyoto-Osaka area
- 登坂 【トウハン】 climbing a slope (hill), ascending a hill
Kun reading compounds
- 坂 【さか】 slope, incline, hill, milestone, (age) mark
- 坂道 【さかみち】 hill road
- 海境 【うなさか】 boundary between the world of men and the world of the sea god
- 急な坂 【きゅうなさか】 sudden drop, precipitous slope
Readings
- Japanese names:
- か、 ざ
- Korean:
- pan
Spanish
- cuesta
- pendiente
Portuguese
- rampa
- inclinação
- morro
French
- pente
- incliner
- colline
304 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
394 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
372 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
595 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1061 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
343 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
428 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
390 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
443 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
449 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
605 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
370 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
275 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
172 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
206 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
731 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
4910 | Morohashi |
234 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
985 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
723 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
780 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
282 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1467 | 2001 Kanji |
3b4.7 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-3-4 | SKIP code |
4114.7 | Four corner code |
1-26-68 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5742 | Unicode hex code |
seasons
- On:
- キ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
842 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 季 【キ】 season (in nature, sports, etc.), seasonal word or phrase (in haiku), year
- 季刊 【キカン】 quarterly publication
- 夏季 【カキ】 summer season
- 秋季 【シュウキ】 fall season, autumn season
Readings
- Japanese names:
- すえ、 とし
- Korean:
- gye
Spanish
- estación del año
Portuguese
- estações
French
- saison
369 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
471 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
448 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
871 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3266 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
641 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
456 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
725 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
465 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
473 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
698 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
461 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3161 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1624 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2210 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
921 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
6965 | Morohashi |
2554 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1292 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
912 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
978 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
499 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2247 | 2001 Kanji |
5d2.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-5-3 | SKIP code |
2-5-2 | SKIP code |
2040.7 | Four corner code |
1-21-08 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5b63 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
68 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 実 【ジツ】 truth, reality, sincerity, honesty, fidelity, content, substance, (good) result
- 実演 【ジツエン】 demonstration, presentation, stage show, performance
- 名実 【メイジツ】 in name and in reality, nominally and virtually, form and contents
- 内実 【ナイジツ】 the facts, the truth, the true state of affairs, in truth, in fact, in reality, actually
- 故実 【コジツ】 ancient practices, old customs
Kun reading compounds
- 実 【み】 fruit, nut, seed, (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc., content, substance
- 実り 【みのり】 ripening (of a crop), crop, harvest
- 浮き実 【うきみ】 soup garnish
- 桷 【ずみ】 Toringo crabapple (Malus sieboldii)
- 実る 【みのる】 to bear fruit, to ripen, to produce (good) results, to show results, to bear fruit
- 実るほど頭の下がる稲穂かな 【みのるほどあたまのさがるいなほかな】 the more learned, the more humble, the boughs bearing the most hang lowest
- 誠 【まこと】 truth, reality, fact, sincerity, honesty, faithfulness, good faith, indeed, really, absolutely, truly, actually, very, quite
- 実に 【じつに】 indeed, really, absolutely, truly, actually, very, quite
- 嘘から出たまこと 【うそからでたまこと】 something intended as a lie or joke which (by chance) ends up being true, lie turned truth
- 実り 【みのり】 ripening (of a crop), crop, harvest
- 実る 【みのる】 to bear fruit, to ripen, to produce (good) results, to show results, to bear fruit
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ぐみ、 さね
- Korean:
- sil
Spanish
- realidad
- verdad
- fruta
- nuez
- semilla
- contenido
- buen resultado
- dar frutos
- madurar
Portuguese
- realidade
- verdade
French
- réalité
- vérité
233 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
312 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
296 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
89 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1297 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
233 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
466 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
678 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
3.20 | Japanese for Busy People |
203 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
203 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
672 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
470 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2765 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1416 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1911 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1586 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
7124 | Morohashi |
2225 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1324 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1572 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1694 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
37 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
301 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
763 | 2001 Kanji |
3m5.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-3-5 | SKIP code |
3053.0 | Four corner code |
1-28-34 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5b9f | Unicode hex code |
子
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
- 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
- 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
- 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
- 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
- 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
- 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
- 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
- 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs
Kun reading compounds
- 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
- 子 【こう】 child, interest
- 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
- 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
- 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
- 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
- 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
- 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
- Korean:
- ja
Spanish
- chiquillo
- niño
Portuguese
- criança
French
- enfant
- signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
- signe du Rat (zodiaque)
- 23 h à 01 h
- Nord (0°)
31 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
40 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
25 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
56 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1264 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
61 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
43 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
38 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.18 | Japanese for Busy People |
103 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
103 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
69 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
455 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4196 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2125 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2872 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
96 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
6930 | Morohashi |
3390 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1281 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
95 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
99 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
42 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
18 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
3547 | 2001 Kanji |
2c0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-3-1 | SKIP code |
4-2-1 | SKIP code |
1740.7 | Four corner code |
1-27-50 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5b50 | Unicode hex code |