Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
reed, bullrush
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2343 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 一葦 【イチイ】 one reed, small boat, one person

Kun reading compounds

  • 葦 【あし】 common reed (Phragmites australis)
  • 海驢 【あしか】 eared seal (esp. the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus), sea lion
  • 間葦 【あいあし】 Phacelurus latifolius (species of perennial grass)
  • 青葦 【あおあし】 lush waterside reeds
  • 葦 【あし】 common reed (Phragmites australis)
  • 葦鴨 【よしがも】 falcated teal

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wei3
Korean:
wi

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3998 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1992 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2934 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2041 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31437 Morohashi
5160 New Nelson (John Haig)
2411 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2491 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k10.21 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
4450.6 Four corner code
1-16-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8466 Unicode hex code

5 strokes (also 4)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
Variants:
environs, boundary, border, vicinity
Kun:
あた.りほと.り-べ
On:
ヘン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
428 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 辺 【ヘン】 area, vicinity, region, side, edge, circumstances
  • 辺境 【ヘンキョウ】 remote region, outlying district, border district, frontier
  • 普遍 【フヘン】 universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent
  • どの辺 【ドノヘン】 whereabouts, what part, how much, what point

Kun reading compounds

  • 辺り 【あたり】 (in the) neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity, nearby, surroundings, around, about, or thereabouts, for instance, say, such as
  • あたり一面 【あたりいちめん】 whole area, surrounding area, all around, everywhere, all over the place
  • 御辺 【ごへん】 you
  • 辺 【ほとり】 side (esp. of a waterbody), edge, bank, shore
  • 片辺 【かたほとり】 corner, remote country place

Readings

Japanese names:
なべ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bian1
Korean:
byeon

Spanish

  • alrededores
  • límites
  • vecindad

Portuguese

  • arredores
  • limite
  • borda
  • vizinhança

French

  • environs
  • frontière
  • voisinage
713 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
608 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
580 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
696 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4661 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
270 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
947 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
179 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
775 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
789 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
962 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
676 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3761 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1916 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2607 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
290 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38710P Morohashi
3029 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6011 New Nelson (John Haig)
284 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
302 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
455 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3545 2001 Kanji
2q2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
3730.2 Four corner code
1-42-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8fba Unicode hex code