Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
steam, heat, sultry, foment, get musty
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1552 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 蒸気 【ジョウキ】 steam, vapour, vapor, steamboat, steam locomotive
  • 蒸発 【ジョウハツ】 evaporation, disappearance (of a person), vanishing without a trace
  • 燻蒸 【クンジョウ】 fumigation, smoking (out)
  • 蒸籠 【セイロ】 bamboo steamer, steaming basket, wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot, soba served on a small wickerwork tray, wickerwork tray (for serving soba)
  • せいろ蒸し 【セイロムシ】 steaming (of food) using a bamboo steamer

Kun reading compounds

  • 蒸す 【むす】 to steam (food, towel, etc.), to be hot and humid, to be sultry
  • 蒸れる 【むれる】 to be steamed (properly, e.g. rice), to be stuffy, to grow musty, to get close, to become sweaty, to feel sticky, to moulder
  • 蒸らす 【むらす】 to cook by steam

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zheng1
Korean:
jeung

Spanish

  • vapor
  • echar vapor
  • cocinar al vapor

Portuguese

  • vapor
  • calor
  • quente
  • compressas
  • ficar mofado

French

  • cuire à la vapeur
  • chauffer
  • torride
  • fomenter
  • renfermé
915 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
904 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1721 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4002 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
950 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
872 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1981 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
943 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
973 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
802 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
665 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2936 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1508 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2043 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1920 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31618P Morohashi
2334 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5163 New Nelson (John Haig)
1900 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2049 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
961 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1940 2001 Kanji
3k9.19 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-3-9 SKIP code
4433.1 Four corner code
1-30-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
84b8 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