Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
hollyhock
Kun:
あおい
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2122 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 葵花 【キカ】 sunflower
  • 戎葵 【ジュウキ】 hollyhock
  • 黄蜀葵 【トロロアオイ】 sunset hibiscus (Hibiscus manihot)

Kun reading compounds

  • 葵 【あおい】 mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae), Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger)
  • アオイ科 【アオイか】 Malvaceae (family of mallows)
  • 布袋葵 【ほていあおい】 common water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes)
  • 天竺葵 【てんじくあおい】 geranium (Pelargonium inquinans)

Readings

Japanese names:
まもる、 け
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kui2
Korean:
gyu

Spanish

  • malva real
  • malva loca

Portuguese

French

3990 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1723 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2222 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2906 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1493 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2018 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31458X Morohashi
2317 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5120 New Nelson (John Haig)
2391 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2472 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k9.17 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
4443.0 Four corner code
1-16-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8475 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
hiding enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
ward, district
On:
オウコウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
137 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 区 【ク】 ward, borough, city (in Tokyo), district (e.g. electoral), section, zone (e.g. postal)
  • 区域 【クイキ】 area, zone, district, quarter, section, limits, boundary
  • 学区 【ガック】 school district, school area
  • 鉱区 【コウク】 mining area, mine lot

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qu1, ou1
Korean:
gu, u

Spanish

  • barrio
  • distrito
  • sección

Portuguese

  • waº
  • distrito

French

  • circonscription
  • arrondissement
591 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
282 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
465 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
67 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
757 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
168 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
131 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
183 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
183 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
548 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
233 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3681 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1879 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2559 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1712 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2674 Morohashi
2963 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
585 New Nelson (John Haig)
1696 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1831 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
243 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3475 2001 Kanji
2t2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
7171.4 Four corner code
1-22-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
533a Unicode hex code