Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
laugh
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
913 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 笑気 【ショウキ】 laughing gas, nitrous oxide
  • 笑気麻酔 【ショウキマスイ】 nitrous oxide anesthesia, laughing gas anesthesia
  • 苦笑 【クショウ】 bitter smile, wry smile, strained laugh, sarcastic laugh
  • 冷笑 【レイショウ】 sneer, derision, scornful laugh, cold smile

Kun reading compounds

  • 笑う 【わらう】 to laugh, to smile, to sneer, to ridicule, to be dumbfounded, to be flabbergasted
  • 笑う門には福来る 【わらうかどにはふくきたる】 laugh and grow fat, good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
  • 笑む 【えむ】 to smile

Readings

Japanese names:
えみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao4
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • risa
  • sonrisa
  • reír
  • sonreír

Portuguese

  • risada

French

  • rire
537 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
900 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
889 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3374 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1147 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
791 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1209 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1235 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1299 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
251 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1472 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3275 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1692 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2300 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
947 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25885 Morohashi
2646 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4256 New Nelson (John Haig)
938 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1008 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
482 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
548 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2363 2001 Kanji
6f4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
8843.2 Four corner code
1-30-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7b11 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
picture, drawing, painting, sketch
On:
カイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
895 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絵画 【カイガ】 painting, picture
  • 絵画館 【カイガカン】 art or picture gallery
  • 絵 【エ】 picture, drawing, painting, sketch, image (TV, film, etc.), picture, footage
  • 絵の具 【エノグ】 paint, coloring materials, colors, colours
  • 巴 【トモエ】 tomoe, heraldic design composed of two or more interlocked comma-shaped figures
  • 踏み絵 【フミエ】 fumi-e, fumie, tablet bearing Christian images, on which Edo-period authorities forced suspected Christians to trample, allegiance test, loyalty test

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hui4
Korean:
hoe

Spanish

  • cuadro
  • dibujo
  • pintura

Portuguese

  • gravura
  • desenho
  • pintura
  • esboço

French

  • image
  • dessin
  • peinture
  • esquisse
172 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
95 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
89 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
976 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3537 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
380 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
819 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2332 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
345 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
345 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
617 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1530 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1704 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
910 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1358 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27464P Morohashi
1346 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4488 New Nelson (John Haig)
1346 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1446 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
214 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2771 2001 Kanji
6a6.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
2893.1 Four corner code
1-19-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d75 Unicode hex code