Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
stripe
Kun:
しましろぎぬ
On:
コウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2491 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 水縞 【スイコウ】 water stripe (e.g. dried on a dish after washing)

Kun reading compounds

  • 縞 【しま】 stripe, bar, streak, (weaved) stripe pattern (of 2 or more different colors)
  • 縞鰺 【しまあじ】 striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex), white trevally
  • 縞々 【しましま】 striped, stripes

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gao3
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • rayas
  • a rayas

Portuguese

French

3595 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1784 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1287 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
27777 Morohashi
4569 New Nelson (John Haig)
2671 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2712 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6a10.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-10 SKIP code
2092.7 Four corner code
1-28-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e1e Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 挿秧 【ソウオウ】 rice planting

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yang1
Korean:
ang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3278 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1114 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
24996 Morohashi
4137 New Nelson (John Haig)
5d5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-5 SKIP code
2593.0 Four corner code
1-67-31 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
79e7 Unicode hex code

19 strokes
Radical:
bird
Parts:
Variants:
chicken
Kun:
にわとりとり
On:
ケイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1901 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鶏肉 【トリニク】 chicken meat, fowl, poultry, bird meat
  • 鶏卵 【ケイラン】 hen's egg
  • 養鶏 【ヨウケイ】 poultry raising, poultry farming, chicken farming
  • 成鶏 【セイケイ】 adult chicken, mature fowl

Kun reading compounds

  • 鶏 【にわとり】 chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), domestic chicken, chicken meat
  • 鶏小屋 【にわとりごや】 henhouse, chicken coop
  • 鳥 【とり】 bird, bird meat (esp. chicken meat), fowl, poultry
  • 鶏 【にわとり】 chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), domestic chicken, chicken meat
  • 花鶏 【あとり】 brambling (bird) (Fringilla montifringilla)
  • 頭青花鶏 【ずあおあとり】 chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji1
Korean:
gye

Spanish

  • pollo
  • gallo
  • ave de corral

Portuguese

  • Frango
  • galinha

French

  • poule
1206 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1669 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5359 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1548 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1922 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2821 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
926 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
949 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1863 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1936 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2221 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1158 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1577 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1966 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
47074P Morohashi
1768 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6980 New Nelson (John Haig)
1947 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2097 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1928 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2050 2001 Kanji
11b8.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-11 SKIP code
2752.7 Four corner code
1-23-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d8f Unicode hex code