Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
sideways, side, horizontal, width, woof, unreasonable, perverse
Kun:
よこ
On:
オウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
480 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 横線 【オウセン】 horizontal line
  • 横行 【オウコウ】 being rampant, being widespread, being prevalent, walking sideways, staggering, striding
  • 縦横 【ジュウオウ】 length and width, length and breadth, lengthwise and crosswise, vertical and horizontal, the four cardinal points, every direction, all directions, as one wishes, as one pleases, at will
  • 専横 【センオウ】 arbitrariness, despotism, high-handedness, tyranny

Kun reading compounds

  • 横 【よこ】 horizontal (as opposed to vertical), lying down, side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back), width, breadth, side (of a box, etc.), beside, aside, next to, unconnected
  • 邪 【よこしま】 wicked, evil, wrong, bad
  • 真横 【まよこ】 (right at the) side, just beside
  • 縦中横 【たてちゅうよこ】 using horizontal characters in vertical writing

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
heng2, heng4
Korean:
hoeng

Spanish

  • lateral
  • lado
  • horizontal
  • egoísta
  • incorrecto
  • costado

Portuguese

  • De lado
  • lado
  • horizontal
  • largura
  • trama (tecidos)

French

  • latéral
  • côté
  • horizontal
  • largeur
  • trame (tissu)
355 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
255 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
235 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
297 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2361 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
470 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
644 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2301 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
781 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
795 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
34 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1111 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1350 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
733 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
979 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1767 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15484P Morohashi
1066 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2854 New Nelson (John Haig)
1751 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1888 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
432 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1861 2001 Kanji
4a11.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-11 SKIP code
4498.6 Four corner code
1-18-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6a2a Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
mountain
Kun:
やま
On:
サンセン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
131 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 山 【サン】 Mt., Mount, temple
  • 山陰 【ヤマカゲ】 place in the shade of a mountain, shelter of the mountains, mountain recess
  • 治山 【チサン】 forest conservation, afforestation
  • 開山 【カイサン】 founding a temple (on a hill-top)
  • 山道 【ヤマミチ】 mountain road, mountain trail
  • 山海経 【センガイキョウ】 Classic of Mountains and Seas (classic Chinese text)
  • 雪山 【セツザン】 snowy mountain, permanently snow-covered mountain, Himalayas
  • 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)

Kun reading compounds

  • 山 【やま】 mountain, hill, mine (e.g. coal mine), heap, pile, crown (of a hat), thread (of a screw), tread (of a tire), protruding part of an object, high part, climax, peak, critical point, guess, speculation, gamble, criminal case, crime, mountain climbing, mountaineering, festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd), deck (of playing cards on table, face down, from which cards are drawn), stack, wall, wall tile, temple, temple grounds, wild
  • 山陰 【やまかげ】 place in the shade of a mountain, shelter of the mountains, mountain recess
  • 奥山 【おくやま】 remote mountain, mountain recesses
  • 青山 【せいざん】 lush mountain, green mountain, grave, burial place

Readings

Japanese names:
さ、 やの、 やん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shan1
Korean:
san

Spanish

  • montaña

Portuguese

  • montanha

French

  • montagne
38 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
58 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
24 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
60 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1407 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
21 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
48 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
89 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
34 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
34 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
100 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
535 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3658 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1867 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2544 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
775 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7869 Morohashi
2940 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1439 New Nelson (John Haig)
768 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
830 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
148 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
17 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1276 2001 Kanji
3o0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-1 SKIP code
4-3-2 SKIP code
2277.0 Four corner code
1-27-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c71 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
masculine, male, hero, leader, superiority, excellence
Kun:
お-おすおん
On:
ユウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
669 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 雄 【ユウ】 male, man, excellence, greatness, best (of), great person, leading figure
  • 雄大 【ユウダイ】 grand, magnificent, majestic, great, sublime
  • 雌雄 【シユウ】 male and female (animals), the two sexes, victory and defeat, strengths and weaknesses
  • 両雄 【リョウユウ】 two great men

Kun reading compounds

  • 雄 【おす】 male (animal, plant)
  • 雄犬 【おすいぬ】 male dog
  • 雄 【おす】 male (animal, plant)
  • 雄鶏 【おんどり】 cock, rooster, chanticleer

Readings

Japanese names:
かつ、 たけ、 つよし、 ゆ、 よう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiong2
Korean:
ung

Spanish

  • fuerte
  • bravo
  • valiente
  • masculino
  • varón

Portuguese

  • masculino
  • másculo
  • herói
  • líder
  • superioridade
  • excelência

French

  • mâle
  • masculin
  • héros
  • chef
  • supériorité
  • excellence
1869 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
500 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5030 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1387 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1884 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1912 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1387 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1476 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1637 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1852 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1271 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
688 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
920 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
751 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41972 Morohashi
1008 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6499 New Nelson (John Haig)
743 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
804 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1602 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1475 2001 Kanji
8c4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
4001.4 Four corner code
1-45-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96c4 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
next, order, sequence
Kun:
つ.ぐつぎ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
222 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 次 【ジ】 next, hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence), order, sequence, time, times
  • 次回 【ジカイ】 next time (occasion)
  • 三次 【サンジ】 third, tertiary, cubic (function, equation, etc.), third-order
  • 数次 【スウジ】 several times
  • 次第に 【シダイニ】 gradually (progress into a state), in sequence, in order, in turn
  • 次第 【シダイ】 depending on, as soon as, immediately after, upon, as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"), whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"), order, program, programme, precedence, circumstances, course of events, state of things, reason
  • 路次 【ロジ】 way, path, route, along the way, along the road

Kun reading compounds

  • 次ぐ 【つぐ】 to follow, to come after, to come next (to), to rank next (to), to rank second (to)
  • 次ぐ身 【つぐみ】 next in line, heir
  • 次 【つぎ】 next, following, subsequent, stage, station
  • 次々 【つぎつぎ】 in succession, one by one
  • 五十三次 【ごじゅうさんつぎ】 fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
  • 中継ぎ 【なかつぎ】 joining, joint, intermediation, acting as an intermediary, relaying, taking over, middle relief pitcher, middle reliever, pole-shaped item with a join in the middle, tea container with a lid that is the same size as the body

Readings

Japanese names:
き、 すき、 つぐ、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ci4
Korean:
cha

Spanish

  • siguiente
  • seguir

Portuguese

  • próximo
  • pedido
  • seqüência

French

  • suivant
  • ordre
  • successivement
227 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
308 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
292 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
235 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
638 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
239 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
648 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
226 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
384 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
385 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
660 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1120 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
58 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
38 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
39 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
482 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15992P Morohashi
54 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2929 New Nelson (John Haig)
471 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
510 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
150 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
268 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
362 2001 Kanji
2b4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-4 SKIP code
3718.2 Four corner code
1-28-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b21 Unicode hex code