Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
white
Parts:
emperor
On:
コウオウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
721 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 皇后 【コウゴウ】 (Japanese) empress, queen
  • 皇居 【コウキョ】 Imperial Palace (of Japan), imperial residence
  • 倉皇 【ソウコウ】 hurriedly, in a hurry, in great haste
  • 教皇 【キョウコウ】 Pope
  • 皇帝 【コウテイ】 emperor
  • 皇子 【オウジ】 imperial prince
  • 法皇 【ホウオウ】 cloistered emperor, ex-emperor who has become a monk
  • 太上法皇 【ダイジョウホウオウ】 cloistered emperor, ex-emperor who has become a monk

Readings

Japanese names:
おうじ、 おお、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huang2
Korean:
hwang, wang

Spanish

  • emperador

Portuguese

  • imperador

French

  • empereur
783 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
871 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
861 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
964 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3100 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
460 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1551 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
964 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
297 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
297 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
579 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1366 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3175 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1635 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2223 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
267 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22701 Morohashi
2566 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3870 New Nelson (John Haig)
261 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
279 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
880 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
872 2001 Kanji
4f5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
2610.4 Four corner code
1-25-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7687 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
use 用 (甩)
Parts:
for the first time, not until
Kun:
はじ.めて
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2270 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 台甫 【タイホ】 your personal name

Kun reading compounds

  • 初めて 【はじめて】 for the first time, only after ... is it ..., only when ... do you ..., not until ... do you ..., first time, (one's) first

Readings

Japanese names:
はじめ、 とし、 なみ、 すけ、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu3
Korean:
bo

Spanish

  • principio
  • primera vez
  • grande

Portuguese

French

135 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
533 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2167 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4363 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2209 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2972 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
21706 Morohashi
3549 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3722 New Nelson (John Haig)
2097 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
0a7.11 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
5322.7 Four corner code
1-42-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
752b Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
be aggravated, grow worse, grow bulky, swell
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 嵩高 【スウコウ】 lofty (of a mountain), tall

Kun reading compounds

  • 嵩 【かさ】 bulk, volume, quantity
  • 嵩上げ 【かさあげ】 raising (an embankment, levee, etc.), increasing (a budget, fees, etc.), raising, inflating (figures), padding (an expense account, bill, etc.)
  • 水かさ 【みずかさ】 volume of water (in a river, pond, flood, etc.)
  • 年嵩 【としかさ】 senior, older, elderly
  • 嵩む 【かさむ】 to mount up, to pile up, to accumulate, to increase

Readings

Japanese names:
たかし、 たか、 たけ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
song1
Korean:
sung

Spanish

  • irritado
  • exasperado
  • hincharse
  • alto

Portuguese

French

1433 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2057 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2927 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1504 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2035 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
8348 Morohashi
2331 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1502 New Nelson (John Haig)
2224 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2334 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3o10.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-5-8 SKIP code
2222.7 Four corner code
1-31-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5d69 Unicode hex code