Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
white
Parts:
white, clear
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2428 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 皓月 【コウゲツ】 bright white moon
  • 皓々 【コウコウ】 bright (esp. of the moon), broad and empty
  • 皓々 【コウコウ】 bright (esp. of the moon), broad and empty

Readings

Japanese names:
あきら、 てる、 あき、 ひろ、 ひろし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hao4
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • blanco puro
  • blanco brillante

Portuguese

French

3105 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1639 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2169 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1513 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
800 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1092 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
22732X Morohashi
1180 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3875 New Nelson (John Haig)
2934 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2941 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4c8.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-7 SKIP code
2466.1 Four corner code
2566.0 Four corner code
1-66-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7693 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
sort of thing, so, if so, in that case, well
Kun:
しかしか.りしか.し
On:
ゼンネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
401 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 然 【ゼン】 -like
  • 然諾 【ゼンダク】 consent, saying yes
  • 必然 【ヒツゼン】 inevitable, necessary, certain, sure, inevitability, necessity
  • 漠然 【バクゼン】 vague, obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous
  • 寂然 【セキゼン】 lonely, desolate, forlornness, desolation
  • 自然 【ジネン】 occurring naturally (without human influence)

Kun reading compounds

  • 然 【しか】 like that, as such, yeah, uh-huh
  • 然し 【しかし】 however, but
  • 然り 【しかり】 yes, yea, aye, affirmative, to be so
  • 然し 【しかし】 however, but
  • 而して 【そして】 and, and then, thus, and now, and finally
  • 然 【さ】 so, like that, in that way
  • 然らば 【さらば】 farewell, goodbye, adieu, if so, in that case, then, and (then)
  • 然然 【ささ】 such and such

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ran2
Korean:
yeon

Spanish

  • de esa forma
  • en ese caso

Portuguese

  • Tipos de objetos
  • assim
  • se assim
  • naquele caso
  • bem

French

  • un certain
  • si c'est comme ça
  • dans ce cas
  • suffixe adverbial
450 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
557 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
528 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
375 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2770 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
437 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
716 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1788 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
651 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
662 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
401 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1279 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3456 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1779 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2423 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
246 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19149 Morohashi
2782 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3435 New Nelson (John Haig)
241 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
256 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
144 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
592 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2540 2001 Kanji
4d8.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
2333.3 Four corner code
1-33-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7136 Unicode hex code