Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
Variants:
lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)
Kun:
か.けるか.く
On:
ケツケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
860 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 欠 【ケツ】 lack, deficiency, vacancy, absence, non-attendance
  • 欠員 【ケツイン】 vacancy, vacant position
  • 補欠 【ホケツ】 filling a vacancy, supplementation, substitute, deputy, alternate, spare
  • 出欠 【シュッケツ】 attendance or absence
  • 欠缺 【ケンケツ】 lacuna, gap where something is lacked
  • 欠缺利札 【ケンケツリサツ】 invalid coupon
  • 阿毘羅吽欠 【アビラウンケン】 a-bi-ra-un-ken (mantra directed to Vairocana)

Kun reading compounds

  • 欠ける 【かける】 to chip, to be chipped, to break (off), to be damaged, to be missing (from a set, team, etc.), to be absent, to become lost, to be lacking (in), to be short (of), to be deficient, to be wanting (in), to wane (of the moon), to go into eclipse
  • 欠く 【かく】 to chip, to nick, to break, to crack, to lack
  • 欠くことができない 【かくことができない】 indispensable, essential, necessary

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian4
Korean:
heum, gam, gyeol

Spanish

  • falta
  • carestía
  • romperse
  • agrietarse
  • faltar
  • carecer

Portuguese

  • falta
  • intervalo
  • falha

French

  • manquer
  • lacune
  • rater
  • radical bâillement (no. 76)
597 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
496 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
471 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
968 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2412 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
713 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
647 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
383 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
384 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
659 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1119 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2481 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1255 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1721 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
477 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15991 Morohashi
1987 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2928 New Nelson (John Haig)
466 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
505 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
442 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2562 2001 Kanji
4j0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-2 SKIP code
4-4-4 SKIP code
2780.2 Four corner code
1-23-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b20 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
collapse, fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1154 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 陥落 【カンラク】 subsidence, sinking, cave-in, collapse, falling in, fall (of a city, fortress, etc.), surrender, fall (in position, rank, etc.), demotion, giving in (to someone's persuasion), yielding, being convinced
  • 陥没 【カンボツ】 cave-in, collapse, sinking, depression (e.g. of the skull), subsidence
  • 擠陥 【セイカン】 tempting into crime
  • 注意欠陥 【チュウイケッカン】 attention deficit

Kun reading compounds

  • 陥る 【おちいる】 to fall into (e.g. a hole), to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.), to fall into (a trap, etc.), to fall, to surrender, to capitulate
  • 陥れる 【おとしいれる】 to trap (into a difficult situation), to put (in a fix), to throw (e.g. into turmoil), to trick (into doing), to lure (into a trap), to frame (for a crime), to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.), to take, to reduce, to drop (something) into

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian4
Korean:
ham

Spanish

  • hundirse
  • derrumbarse
  • caer
  • resbalarse
  • deslizarse

Portuguese

  • colapso
  • desmoronar
  • ruir
  • queda (castelo)
  • deslizamento

French

  • s'écrouler
  • piège
  • tomber dans
  • capituler
  • tomber (château)
  • glisser dans
1098 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1678 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4990 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1718 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1870 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1218 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1281 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1522 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
730 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
547 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
334 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
413 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1325 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41676P Morohashi
457 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6446 New Nelson (John Haig)
1315 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1412 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1401 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3678 2001 Kanji
2d7.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
7726.2 Four corner code
1-20-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9665 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
dwell, reside, live, inhabit
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
270 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 住 【ジュウ】 dwelling, living
  • 住居 【ジュウキョ】 dwelling, house, residence, address
  • 先住 【センジュウ】 original inhabitant, aboriginal, previous priest
  • 安住 【アンジュウ】 living in peace, living a quiet life, being content with one's present position, being satisfied with one's lot

Kun reading compounds

  • 住む 【すむ】 to live (of humans), to reside, to inhabit, to dwell, to abide
  • 住まう 【すまう】 to live, to reside, to inhabit

Readings

Japanese names:
し、 じゅ、 すみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu4
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • residir
  • vivir
  • habitar
  • residencia

Portuguese

  • reside
  • vida
  • habita

French

  • résider
  • vivre
  • habiter
244 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
325 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
310 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
248 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
404 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
209 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
114 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
355 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
156 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
156 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
141 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
78 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
72 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
44 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
47 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
963 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
505 Morohashi
64 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
164 New Nelson (John Haig)
954 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1027 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
377 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
283 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2172 2001 Kanji
2a5.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
2021.4 Four corner code
1-29-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f4f Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
roof
Parts:
home, house, residence, our house, my husband
On:
タク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
357 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 宅 【タク】 house, home, one's house, one's home, one's husband
  • 宅地 【タクチ】 building lot, residential land
  • 社宅 【シャタク】 company housing, housing provided by one's company
  • 家宅 【カタク】 domicile, premises

Readings

Japanese names:
け、 たか、 たけ、 や、 やけ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhai2, zhe4
Korean:
taeg, daeg

Spanish

  • hogar
  • casa
  • residencia
  • marido propio

Portuguese

  • casa
  • lar
  • residência
  • nossa casa
  • meu marido

French

  • domicile
  • maison
  • résidence
  • notre maison
  • mon mari
940 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
928 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
371 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1279 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
992 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
458 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
283 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.13 Japanese for Busy People
178 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
178 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
538 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
467 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2698 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1376 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1862 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1935 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7064 Morohashi
2174 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1308 New Nelson (John Haig)
1916 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2065 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
847 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
756 2001 Kanji
3m3.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
3071.4 Four corner code
1-34-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b85 Unicode hex code