Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
bud, sprout, spear, germ
Kun:
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1691 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 芽球 【ガキュウ】 gemmule, blast (cell)
  • 芽殖孤虫 【ガショクコチュウ】 Sparganum proliferum (species of worm)
  • 発芽 【ハツガ】 germination, sprouting, budding
  • 無性芽 【ムセイガ】 gemma

Kun reading compounds

  • 芽 【め】 sprout, shoot, bud, germinal disk (in an egg)
  • 目出度い 【めでたい】 happy, auspicious, propitious, joyous, naive
  • 若芽 【わかめ】 sprouts, new shoots, young buds
  • 脇芽 【わきめ】 axillary bud, lateral bud, side shoots (e.g. of a tomato or broccoli plant), side buds, suckers

Readings

Japanese names:
じ、 めぐ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ya2, di2
Korean:
a

Spanish

  • brote
  • germen

Portuguese

  • botão
  • broto
  • brotar
  • germe (planta)

French

  • bourgeon
  • pousse
  • brin
  • germe
358 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
457 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
434 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1676 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3920 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
709 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1697 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
683 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1455 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1549 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1835 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
645 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2784 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1429 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1927 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1924 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30860P Morohashi
2240 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5002 New Nelson (John Haig)
1905 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2054 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
497 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1947 2001 Kanji
3k5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2-4-4 SKIP code
4424.1 Four corner code
1-18-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82bd Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
blow, breathe, puff, emit, smoke
Kun:
ふ.く
On:
スイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
1133 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 吹奏楽 【スイソウガク】 wind music, wind instrument music
  • 推挙 【スイキョ】 recommendation (of a person for a position), nomination
  • 鼓吹 【コスイ】 rousing (courage, morale, etc.), encouragement, advocacy, promotion (of a belief), encouragement, inspiring (someone with an idea)

Kun reading compounds

  • 吹く 【ふく】 to blow (of the wind), to blow (one's breath), to breathe out, to blow on (hot tea, candles, etc.), to puff, to play (a wind instrument), to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.), to whistle (a tune), to emit (smoke, fire, etc.), to spout, to spew, to puff out, to sprout, to put forth (buds), to appear (on the surface), to form, to be coated with (powder, rust, etc.), to burst out laughing, to burst into laughter, to brag, to talk big, to smelt, to mint

Readings

Japanese names:
ふき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chui1, chui4
Korean:
chwi

Spanish

  • soplar
  • exhalar
  • respirar

Portuguese

  • sopro
  • respirar
  • emitir
  • fumaça

French

  • souffler
  • respirer
  • bouffées (fumée)
  • émettre
  • fumer
1452 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
973 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
901 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1095 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
407 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
370 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1255 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1326 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
259 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
300 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
272 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
170 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
204 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
478 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3373 Morohashi
231 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
747 New Nelson (John Haig)
467 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
506 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1106 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3762 2001 Kanji
3d4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
6708.2 Four corner code
1-31-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5439 Unicode hex code