Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
crow, raven
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2042 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 烏克蘭 【ウクライナ】 Ukraine
  • 烏焉魯魚 【ウエンロギョ】 miswriting a word, using the wrong kanji to write a word
  • 露宇 【ロウ】 Russia and Ukraine
  • 金烏 【キンウ】 sun
  • 烏秋 【オウチュウ】 black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
  • 烏滸 【オコ】 foolish thing, stupid thing, absurdity

Kun reading compounds

  • 烏 【からす】 crow (Corvus spp.), raven
  • 烏河豚 【からす】 Chinese puffer (Takifugu chinensis)
  • 闇夜に烏 【やみよにからす】 something indistinct, a crow in a pitch-black night
  • 八咫の烏 【やたのからす】 Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition), three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology
  • 安んぞ 【いずくんぞ】 how, why

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu1, wu4
Korean:
o

Spanish

  • cuervo

Portuguese

French

  • corneille
  • corbeau
229 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1256 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4088 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2811 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1963 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18998 Morohashi
3421 New Nelson (John Haig)
1944 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2094 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4d6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
3-6-4 SKIP code
2732.7 Four corner code
1-17-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
70cf Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
heavens, sky, imperial
Kun:
あまつあめあま-
On:
テン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
512 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 天 【テン】 sky, heaven, God, svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth), deva (divine being of Buddhism), top (of a book), sole (of a Japanese sandal), beginning, start, tempura, India
  • 天下 【テンカ】 the whole world, the whole country, society, the public, supremacy over a nation, government of a country, the ruling power, having one's own way, doing as one pleases, peerless, incomparable, superlative, world-famous, shogun (Edo period)
  • 炎天 【エンテン】 blazing heat, scorching sun
  • 楽天 【ラクテン】 optimism

Kun reading compounds

  • 天津 【あまつ】 heavenly, imperial
  • 天津乙女 【あまつおとめ】 celestial maiden
  • 天 【あめ】 sky
  • 天地 【てんち】 heaven and earth, the universe, the world, nature, land, world, realm, sphere, top and bottom, gods of heaven and earth

Readings

Japanese names:
あき、 あも、 た、 たかし、 て、 なま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tian1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • paraíso
  • cielo
  • imperial

Portuguese

  • paraíso
  • ceú
  • imperiais

French

  • cieux
  • ciel
  • impérial
119 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
67 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
58 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
364 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
16 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
78 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
41 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
93 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
141 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
141 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
462 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
410 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4250 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2148 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2898 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
435 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5833 Morohashi
3442 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1138 New Nelson (John Haig)
428 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
457 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
277 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
34 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3163 2001 Kanji
0a4.21 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-1 SKIP code
1043.0 Four corner code
1-37-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5929 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 狗子仏性 【クシブッショウ】 the Mu koan ("does a dog have Buddha nature?")
  • 狗屠 【クト】 dog slaughter, killing of dogs, dog butcher
  • 走狗 【ソウク】 hound, hunting dog, running dog, dupe, tool of another person, cat's-paw
  • 狡兎良狗 【コウトリョウク】 When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off

Kun reading compounds

  • 犬 【いぬ】 dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris), squealer, rat, snitch, informer, informant, spy, loser, asshole, counterfeit, inferior, useless, wasteful
  • 【イヌワシ】 golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
  • 喪家の狗 【そうかのいぬ】 feeling lost like a stray dog

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gou3
Korean:
gu

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2875 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
566 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
405 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
20345 Morohashi
345 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3565 New Nelson (John Haig)
2341 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2430 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3g5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
4722.0 Four corner code
1-22-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72d7 Unicode hex code