Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
white
Parts:
white
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
483 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 白 【ハク】 white, striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus), (spoken) line (in a play, film, etc.), one's lines, white dragon tile, winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles, Belgium, white person, Caucasian
  • 白衣 【ハクイ】 white clothes, white robe, white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.), commoner without rank (in ancient China), layperson
  • 美白 【ビハク】 beautifully white (esp. of skin), whitening (of skin, teeth, etc.)
  • 漂白 【ヒョウハク】 blanching, bleaching
  • 白衣 【ハクイ】 white clothes, white robe, white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.), commoner without rank (in ancient China), layperson
  • 白夜 【ビャクヤ】 night under the midnight sun, white night (at extreme latitudes), night during which the sun doesn't set
  • 敬白 【ケイハク】 yours sincerely, sincerely yours, yours truly
  • 恐惶敬白 【キョウコウケイハク】 very truly yours, very respectfully yours

Kun reading compounds

  • 白 【しろ】 white, innocence, innocent person, blank space, white stone, white dragon tile, skewered grilled pig intestine
  • 白い 【しろい】 white
  • 面白 【おもしろ】 amusing, funny, interesting
  • 蘿蔔 【すずしろ】 daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
  • 白い 【しろい】 white
  • 白色 【しろいろ】 white

Readings

Japanese names:
あき、 か、 はっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bai2
Korean:
baeg, bae

Spanish

  • blanco

Portuguese

  • branco

French

  • blanc
37 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
53 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
65 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
266 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3095 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
79 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
73 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
216 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
205 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
205 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
44 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1362 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4305 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2175 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2929 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
37 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22678 Morohashi
3493 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3863 New Nelson (John Haig)
37 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
37 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
242 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
46 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
878 2001 Kanji
4c1.3 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
2600.0 Four corner code
1-39-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
767d Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
square
Parts:
national flag, banner, standard
Kun:
はた
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1190 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 旗手 【キシュ】 standard-bearer, flag-bearer
  • 旗色 【ハタイロ】 situation, outlook, one's allegiance, affiliation, position
  • 日章旗 【ニッショウキ】 the Japanese (rising sun) flag
  • 校旗 【コウキ】 school flag

Kun reading compounds

  • 旗 【はた】 flag, pataka (banner), banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
  • 旗揚げ 【はたあげ】 raising an army, raising a banner, launching a new group, launching a business, launching a new party
  • 白旗 【しらはた】 white flag, truce flag, surrender flag
  • 大会旗 【たいかいはた】 tournament flag

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi2
Korean:
gi

Spanish

  • bandera nacional
  • estandarte
  • bandera

Portuguese

  • bandeira nacional
  • bandeira
  • padrão

French

  • drapeau
  • bannière
  • étendard
371 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
474 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
451 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1174 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2093 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
601 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1401 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2093 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1006 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1043 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1528 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
962 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1321 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
716 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
958 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1780 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13687 Morohashi
1047 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2402 New Nelson (John Haig)
1764 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1901 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
615 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
461 2001 Kanji
4h10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
0828.1 Four corner code
1-20-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
65d7 Unicode hex code