Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
Variants:
take pleasure in, rejoice
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2071 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 欣栄 【キンエイ】 joy and glory, joyous glory, pleasure
  • 欣悦 【キンエツ】 joy, gladness
  • 欣求 【ゴング】 earnest aspiration (to go to paradise)
  • 欣求浄土 【ゴングジョウド】 seeking rebirth in the Pure Land

Kun reading compounds

  • 喜ぶ 【よろこぶ】 to be delighted, to be glad, to be pleased, to rejoice, to congratulate, to welcome (a proposal, advice, etc.), to take kindly to, to do with pleasure, to do gladly, to be happy (to do)

Readings

Japanese names:
やすし、 よし、 し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xin1
Korean:
heun

Spanish

  • alegrarse
  • divertirse

Portuguese

French

2077 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1924 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
603 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2129 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1057 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
569 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
753 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
16008 Morohashi
852 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2930 New Nelson (John Haig)
2888 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2897 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4j4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
7728.2 Four corner code
1-22-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b23 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
sort of thing, so, if so, in that case, well
Kun:
しかしか.りしか.し
On:
ゼンネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
401 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 然 【ゼン】 -like
  • 然諾 【ゼンダク】 consent, saying yes
  • 必然 【ヒツゼン】 inevitable, necessary, certain, sure, inevitability, necessity
  • 漠然 【バクゼン】 vague, obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous
  • 寂然 【セキゼン】 lonely, desolate, forlornness, desolation
  • 自然 【ジネン】 occurring naturally (without human influence)

Kun reading compounds

  • 然 【しか】 like that, as such, yeah, uh-huh
  • 然し 【しかし】 however, but
  • 然り 【しかり】 yes, yea, aye, affirmative, to be so
  • 然し 【しかし】 however, but
  • 而して 【そして】 and, and then, thus, and now, and finally
  • 然 【さ】 so, like that, in that way
  • 然らば 【さらば】 farewell, goodbye, adieu, if so, in that case, then, and (then)
  • 然然 【ささ】 such and such

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ran2
Korean:
yeon

Spanish

  • de esa forma
  • en ese caso

Portuguese

  • Tipos de objetos
  • assim
  • se assim
  • naquele caso
  • bem

French

  • un certain
  • si c'est comme ça
  • dans ce cas
  • suffixe adverbial
450 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
557 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
528 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
375 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2770 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
437 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
716 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1788 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
651 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
662 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
401 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1279 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3456 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1779 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2423 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
246 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19149 Morohashi
2782 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3435 New Nelson (John Haig)
241 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
256 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
144 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
592 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2540 2001 Kanji
4d8.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
2333.3 Four corner code
1-33-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7136 Unicode hex code