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牧

8 strokes
Radical:
cow 牛 (牜)
Parts:
牛 乞 攵
breed, care for, shepherd, feed, pasture
Kun:
まき
On:
ボク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1360 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 牧 【ボク】 regional governor in ancient China
  • 牧師 【ボクシ】 pastor, minister, clergyman, reverend
  • 遊牧 【ユウボク】 nomadism
  • 移牧 【イボク】 transhumance, moving stock between pastures according to season

Kun reading compounds

  • 牧 【まき】 pasture, grazing land
  • 牧場 【ぼくじょう】 farm (livestock), stock farm, ranch, station, pasture, meadow, grazing land

Readings

Japanese names:
ま、 まい、 もく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu4
Korean:
mog

Spanish

  • pastorear
  • pastar
  • pasto

Portuguese

  • raça
  • importar-se
  • guiar
  • alimentar
  • pastoreio

French

  • élevage
  • soigner
  • berger
  • nourrir
  • pâturage
720 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
614 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
586 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1243 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2856 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
799 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1520 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
610 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
731 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
744 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1273 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1291 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1083 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
586 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
776 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
335 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19950 Morohashi
873 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3537 New Nelson (John Haig)
329 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
351 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
517 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2466 2001 Kanji
4g4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
2854.0 Four corner code
1-43-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7267 Unicode hex code

村

7 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
寸 木
village, town
Kun:
むら
On:
ソン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
253 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 村 【ムラ】 village
  • 村議会 【ソンギカイ】 village assembly
  • 町村 【チョウソン】 towns and villages
  • 農村 【ノウソン】 agricultural community, farm village, rural

Kun reading compounds

  • 村 【むら】 village
  • 村長 【そんちょう】 village headman, village mayor
  • 選手村 【せんしゅむら】 Olympic village, athlete's village
  • 隣村 【りんそん】 neighboring village, neighbouring village

Readings

Japanese names:
え、 むた、 ら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cun1
Korean:
chon

Spanish

  • ciudad
  • pueblo

Portuguese

  • cidade
  • aldeia

French

  • village
  • ville
107 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
62 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
52 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
210 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2191 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
154 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
196 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
424 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
191 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
191 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
364 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1073 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1029 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
558 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
738 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
212 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14464 Morohashi
834 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2564 New Nelson (John Haig)
208 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
221 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
241 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
65 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1848 2001 Kanji
4a3.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4490.0 Four corner code
1-34-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6751 Unicode hex code

新

13 strokes
Radical:
axe 斤
Parts:
亠 并 斤 木 立 辛
new
Kun:
あたら.しい、 あら.た、 あら-、 にい-
On:
シン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
51 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 新 【シン】 new, neo-, newness, novelty, Gregorian calendar, Xin dynasty (of China; 9-23 CE), Hsin dynasty
  • 新鋭 【シンエイ】 young and energetic, up-and-coming, new and excellent, newly produced, up-and-comer
  • 維新 【イシン】 reformation, revolution, renewal, Meiji Restoration, Nippon Ishin no Kai, Japan Innovation Party
  • 改新 【カイシン】 reformation

Kun reading compounds

  • 新しい 【あたらしい】 new, novel, fresh, recent, latest, up-to-date, modern
  • 新しい女 【あたらしいおんな】 liberated woman
  • 新た 【あらた】 new, fresh, novel
  • 新田 【しんでん】 new rice field, newly developed rice field, wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

Readings

Japanese names:
あせ、 あたらし、 し、 に、 にっ、 につ、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xin1
Korean:
sin

Spanish

  • nuevo
  • fresco

Portuguese

  • novo

French

  • nouveau
256 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
165 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
148 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
36 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2080 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
178 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
55 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1965 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
174 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
174 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
85 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
956 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2239 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1166 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1587 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1516 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13572 Morohashi
1784 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2387 New Nelson (John Haig)
1502 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1619 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
80 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
226 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
454 2001 Kanji
5b8.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-4 SKIP code
0292.1 Four corner code
1-31-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
65b0 Unicode hex code

潟

15 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
勹 汁 杰 臼
lagoon
Kun:
かた、 -がた
On:
セキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1204 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 潟湖 【セキコ】 lagoon

Kun reading compounds

  • 潟 【かた】 lagoon, inlet, creek, tidal beach, tidal flat, tideland

Readings

Japanese names:
がら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi4
Korean:
seog

Spanish

  • laguna

Portuguese

  • lagoa

French

  • lagon
1084 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1036 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2695 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1502 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2273 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1626 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1736 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1847 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1248 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
921 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
520 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
679 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2059 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18247 Morohashi
745 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3328 New Nelson (John Haig)
2039 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2195 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1778 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
350 2001 Kanji
3a12.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
1-3-11 SKIP code
3712.7 Four corner code
1-19-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f5f Unicode hex code

県

9 strokes
Radical:
eye 目
Parts:
小 目
Variants:
縣
prefecture
Kun:
か.ける
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
140 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 県 【ケン】 prefecture (Japan), county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.), department (France), province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
  • 県営 【ケンエイ】 (under) prefectural management
  • 都道府県 【トドウフケン】 prefectures (of Japan), largest administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Hokkaido and the remaining prefectures
  • 同県 【ドウケン】 the same prefecture, the said prefecture

Readings

Japanese names:
あがた、 がた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian4
Korean:
hyeon

Spanish

  • prefectura

Portuguese

  • Condado
  • prefeitura (região)

French

  • préfecture
  • département
203 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
291 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
273 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
195 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1362 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
381 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
226 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1252 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
194 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
194 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
336 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1380 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3269 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1687 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2294 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
126 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23210P Morohashi
2641 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3918 New Nelson (John Haig)
513 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
552 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
326 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1241 2001 Kanji
3n6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
3-4-5 SKIP code
2-5-4 SKIP code
2690.1 Four corner code
1-24-09 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
770c Unicode hex code