Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
eye
Parts:
blind, blind man, ignoramus
Kun:
めくら
On:
モウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1767 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 盲 【モウ】 blindness
  • 盲学校 【モウガッコウ】 school for the blind
  • 全盲 【ゼンモウ】 total blindness
  • 衆盲 【シュウモウ】 the blind masses, the ignorant masses, the unenlightened masses, many blind people

Kun reading compounds

  • 盲 【めくら】 blindness, blind person, illiteracy, illiterate person, ignorance, ignoramus
  • 盲穴 【めくらあな】 blind hole
  • 俄盲 【にわかめくら】 sudden blindness, one suddenly blinded
  • 作り盲 【つくりめくら】 feigned blindness

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mang2
Korean:
maeng

Spanish

  • ciego
  • analfabeto
  • irresponsable

Portuguese

  • cortina
  • homem cego
  • ignorante

French

  • aveugle
  • ignorant
1852 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1499 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
297 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1177 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1558 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
936 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1375 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1462 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1278 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1378 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2547 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1298 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1767 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
497 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23132X Morohashi
2053 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3907 New Nelson (John Haig)
486 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
525 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1210 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
479 2001 Kanji
2j6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
0060.1 Four corner code
1-44-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
76f2 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
Variants:
intestines, guts, bowels, viscera
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1807 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 腸 【チョウ】 guts, bowels, intestines
  • 腸炎 【チョウエン】 enteritis
  • 大腸 【ダイチョウ】 large intestine, large bowel, colon
  • 胃腸 【イチョウ】 stomach and intestines, gastrointestinal tract, digestive organs

Kun reading compounds

  • 腸 【ちょう】 guts, bowels, intestines
  • はらわたが煮えくり返る 【はらわたがにえくりかえる】 to be furious, to seethe with anger, to have one's blood boiling
  • 腸 【ちょう】 guts, bowels, intestines
  • 腸香 【わたか】 Ischikauia steenackeri (species of cyprinid fish)
  • 大腸 【だいちょう】 large intestine, large bowel, colon
  • 背わた 【せわた】 vein of a shrimp (prawn), digestive tract of a shrimp, sand vein

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang2
Korean:
jang

Spanish

  • intestinos
  • vísceras

Portuguese

  • intestinos
  • abdomen
  • tripas
  • vísceras

French

  • intestin
  • entrailles
  • viscères
676 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
574 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
547 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1087 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3798 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
810 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1680 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1270 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1344 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1106 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1039 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1307 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
709 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
948 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
550 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29721 Morohashi
1033 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4849 New Nelson (John Haig)
544 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
583 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
611 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3951 2001 Kanji
4b9.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
7622.7 Four corner code
1-36-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8178 Unicode hex code