65 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
66 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
15 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
233 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3317 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
184 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
77 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
723 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.17 | Japanese for Busy People |
140 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
140 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
461 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1452 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2767 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1418 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1913 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1327 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
25415 | Morohashi |
2227 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
4192 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1317 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1414 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
304 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
73 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
304 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 空 【クウ】 empty air, sky, shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon), emptiness, air force, fruitlessness, meaninglessness, void (one of the five elements), empty (e.g. set)
- 空域 【クウイキ】 airspace
- 領空 【リョウクウ】 territorial airspace
- 防空 【ボウクウ】 air defense, air defence
Kun reading compounds
- 空 【そら】 sky, the air, the heavens, weather, far-off place, distant place, state of mind, feeling, (from) memory, (by) heart, falsehood, lie, somehow, vaguely, fake
- 空模様 【そらもよう】 look of the sky, weather
- 定めなき空 【さだめなきそら】 changeable weather
- 晴れた空 【はれたそら】 clear sky, cloudless sky
- 開く 【あく】 to open (e.g. doors), to open (e.g. business, etc.), to be empty, to be vacant, to be available, to be free, to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.), to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to come to an end, to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to have a hole, to form a gap, to have an interval (between events)
- 空き 【あき】 space, room, gap, emptiness, vacancy, opening, empty seat, free time, time to spare, disuse, unused thing
- 空き缶 【あきかん】 empty can
- 開ける 【あける】 to open (a door, etc.), to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package), to unlock, to open (for business, etc.), to empty, to remove, to make space, to make room, to move out, to clear out, to be away from (e.g. one's house), to leave (temporarily), to dawn, to grow light, to end (of a period, season), to begin (of the New Year), to leave (one's schedule) open, to make time (for), to make (a hole), to open up (a hole)
- 空 【から】 emptiness, being empty, not carrying anything, unburdened, empty-handed, dishonoured (bill, promise, etc.), false, no-show (reservation), put-on (cheeriness, courage, etc.), empty (compliments), insincere
- 空手 【からて】 karate, being empty-handed, having nothing in one's hands
- もぬけの殻 【もぬけのから】 completely empty (of a residence, etc.), vacant, deserted, body from which the soul has left, corpse, shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
- 空く 【すく】 to become less crowded, to thin out, to get empty, to be hungry
- 空かす 【すかす】 to feel hungry, to get hungry
- 虚しい 【むなしい】 empty, void, vacant, vain, fruitless, futile, ineffective, lifeless
Readings
- Japanese names:
- うつ、 き、 く
- Korean:
- gong
Spanish
- cielo
- atmósfera
- vacío
- vacante
- quedarse vacío
- vaciar
Portuguese
- esvaziar
- ceú
- desocupado
- vazio
- vácuo
French
- vide
- ciel
- vacant
- creux
772 | 2001 Kanji |
3m5.12 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-3-5 | SKIP code |
2-5-3 | SKIP code |
3010.1 | Four corner code |
1-22-85 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
7a7a | Unicode hex code |
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1404 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- や行 【ヤギョウ】 the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)
Kun reading compounds
- 也 【なり】 to be, to be (location), sum of money
- 弱き者よ汝の名は女なり 【よわきものよなんじのなはおんななり】 frailty, thy name is woman
- 知らぬは亭主ばかりなり 【しらぬはていしゅばかりなり】 the husband is always the last to know, everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband
Readings
- Japanese names:
- し
- Korean:
- ya
Spanish
- ser
Portuguese
French
1553 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
75 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1986 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
23 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2005 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
4214 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2130 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2878 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
171 | Morohashi |
3406 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
58 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
2094 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
2236 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
0a3.29 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-3-2 | SKIP code |
4-3-4 | SKIP code |
4471.2 | Four corner code |
1-44-73 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
4e5f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2152 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 餅餤 【ベイダン】 Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares
- 餅盤 【ヘイバン】 laccolith
- 画餅 【ガベイ】 something useless, picture of rice cakes
- 供餅 【クモチ】 mochi rice cakes used as offering
Kun reading compounds
- 餅 【もち】 mochi, (sticky) rice cake
- 餅網 【もちあみ】 grill or grate for toasting rice cakes
- 椿餅 【つばいもちい】 rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
- 五平餅 【ごへいもち】 skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso
- 餅 【もち】 mochi, (sticky) rice cake
- 餅いなり 【もちいなり】 sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu
- 椿餅 【つばいもちい】 rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
- 愛敬の餅 【あいきょうのもちい】 Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
Readings
- Korean:
- byeong
Spanish
- pastel de pasta de arroz
Portuguese
French
5166 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
2346 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1219 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
2256 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1596 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
44133X | Morohashi |
6689 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
2802 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1590 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
2855 | 2001 Kanji |
8b6.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-8-6 | SKIP code |
8874.1 | Four corner code |
1-44-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
9905 | Unicode hex code |