Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
wolf
Kun:
おおかみ
On:
ロウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2129 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 狼煙 【ノロシ】 beacon, skyrocket, signal fire, smoke signals, starting shot, starting signal
  • 狼火 【ロウカ】 signal fire, beacon
  • 豺狼 【サイロウ】 wolf, rapacious person, merciless and greedy person
  • 前虎後狼 【ゼンココウロウ】 one calamity followed close on the heels of another, out of the frying pan into the fire, tiger in front, wolf in the back

Kun reading compounds

  • 狼 【おおかみ】 wolf (Canis lupus), wolf in sheep's clothing, womanizer
  • 狼魚 【おおかみうお】 Bering wolffish (Anarhichas orientalis)
  • タスマニア狼 【タスマニアおおかみ】 Tasmanian wolf
  • シメニア狼 【シメニアおおかみ】 simenian wolf (Canis simensis), Abyssinia jackal, simian jackal, simenian jackal, Ethiopian wolf

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lang2
Korean:
rang

Spanish

  • lobo
  • confundirse
  • estar desordenado
  • estar desorganizado

Portuguese

French

2888 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1303 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
541 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
407 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
20432 Morohashi
3579 New Nelson (John Haig)
2339 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2428 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3g7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
4323.2 Four corner code
1-47-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72fc Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
Variants:
fire
Kun:
-びほ-
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
574 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 火 【カ】 Tuesday, fire (second of the five elements)
  • 火炎瓶 【カエンビン】 Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb, gasoline bomb
  • 発火 【ハッカ】 ignition, combustion, catching fire, firing a blank cartridge, discharge of a gun without bullets
  • 点火 【テンカ】 ignition, lighting, firing, setting off

Kun reading compounds

  • 火 【ひ】 fire, flame, blaze
  • 火口 【ひぐち】 burner, nozzle, origin of a fire
  • 飛び火 【とびひ】 leaping flames, flying sparks, spread of fire (due to leaping flames), repercussions in unanticipated areas, spilling over, effects of an incident spreading to those seemingly uninvolved, impetigo contagiosa
  • 不知火 【しらぬい】 phosphorescent light, mysterious lights on the sea, sea fire

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huo3
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • fuego
  • flama
  • llama

Portuguese

  • fogo

French

  • feu
13 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
15 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
8 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
432 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2743 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
15 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
69 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
52 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
20 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
20 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
18 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1260 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4273 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2159 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2911 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
163 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18850 Morohashi
3463 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3394 New Nelson (John Haig)
161 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
173 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
27 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1162 2001 Kanji
4d0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
1-1-3 SKIP code
9080.0 Four corner code
1-18-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
706b Unicode hex code