Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
sickness
Parts:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 痘痕 【トウコン】 pockmark
  • 痘瘡 【トウソウ】 smallpox, variola
  • 種痘 【シュトウ】 smallpox vaccination, inoculation against smallpox
  • 鶏痘 【ケイトウ】 fowl pox

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dou4
Korean:
du

Spanish

  • viruela

Portuguese

  • varíola
  • catapora

French

  • variole
1654 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2036 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3053 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1715 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1546 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1942 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2130 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1932 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1354 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4070 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2064 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2798 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1700 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22185 Morohashi
3284 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3813 New Nelson (John Haig)
1684 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1815 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1569 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
573 2001 Kanji
5i7.8 The Kanji Dictionary
3-5-7 SKIP code
0011.8 Four corner code
1-37-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
75d8 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
seedling, sapling, shoot
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1713 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 苗 【ミャオ】 Miao (people), Hmong
  • 苗裔 【ビョウエイ】 descendant
  • 種苗 【シュビョウ】 seeds and seedlings, eggs and hatchlings, (fish) eggs and fry
  • 育苗 【イクビョウ】 raising seedlings
  • 苗字 【ミョウジ】 surname, family name, last name
  • 苗字帯刀 【ミョウジタイトウ】 the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)
  • 豆苗 【トウミョウ】 pea sprouts

Kun reading compounds

  • 苗 【なえ】 seedling, young plant, rice seedling
  • 苗木 【なえぎ】 seedling, sapling, young tree
  • 早苗 【さなえ】 rice seedling
  • 花苗 【はななえ】 flower seedling

Readings

Japanese names:
ねい、 のら、 みう、 みつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
miao2
Korean:
myo

Spanish

  • siembra
  • plantón
  • retoño
  • vástago

Portuguese

  • Muda (planta)
  • broto

French

  • plant
  • jeune arbre
  • bourgeon
1740 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1767 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3923 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1287 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1698 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
685 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1468 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1565 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1837 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
649 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2781 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1426 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1924 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
239 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30781P Morohashi
2237 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5004 New Nelson (John Haig)
234 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
249 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1215 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1976 2001 Kanji
3k5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4460.0 Four corner code
1-41-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82d7 Unicode hex code