Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かやちがや
On:
ボウミョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1895 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茅屋 【ボウオク】 thatched cottage, hovel, my humble cottage
  • 茅茨 【ボウシ】 thatched roof, cogon grass and thorny shrubs (materials for thatching roofs)

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 茅場 【かやば】 hayfield, field of miscanthus
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 茅 【ちがや】 cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Readings

Japanese names:
ち、 じ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mao2
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • gramíneas (junco
  • heno
  • etc.)

Portuguese

French

3924 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
690 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2214 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2779 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1425 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1922 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30836X Morohashi
5005 New Nelson (John Haig)
2385 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2468 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4422.2 Four corner code
1-19-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8305 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
submerge, conceal, hide, lower (voice), hush
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1329 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 潜水 【センスイ】 diving, submerging, going underwater
  • 潜在 【センザイ】 potentiality, dormancy, latency
  • 原潜 【ゲンセン】 nuclear submarine
  • 対潜 【タイセン】 antisubmarine

Kun reading compounds

  • 潜む 【ひそむ】 to lurk, to be hidden, to be concealed, to lie dormant, to be latent
  • 潜る 【もぐる】 to dive (into or under water), to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under, to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground
  • 潜る 【くぐる】 to go under, to pass under, to go through, to pass through, to dive (into or under the water), to evade, to get around, to slip past, to survive, to surmount
  • 潜める 【ひそめる】 to hide, to conceal, to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard, to become quiet and inconspicuous

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian2
Korean:
jam

Spanish

  • esconderse
  • ocultarse
  • silenciar

Portuguese

  • submergir
  • esconder
  • ocultar
  • abaixar (voz)
  • calar

French

  • s'immerger
  • se cacher
  • se dissimuler
  • s'embusquer
  • voix basse
  • chut!
1497 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1302 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2703 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1458 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1501 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2272 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
937 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
967 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1393 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1251 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
922 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
521 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
680 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
852 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18241 Morohashi
746 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3337 New Nelson (John Haig)
844 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
907 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1779 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
378 2001 Kanji
3a12.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
3516.3 Four corner code
1-32-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f5c Unicode hex code