Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
shell
Parts:
buy
Kun:
か.う
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
520 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 買収 【バイシュウ】 acquisition (esp. corporate), buy-out, takeover, purchase, bribery, buying off, corruption
  • 買収計画 【バイシュウケイカク】 purchasing plan, acquisition plan
  • 不買 【フバイ】 not buying
  • 人身売買 【ジンシンバイバイ】 slave trade, white-slave trade, human trafficking

Kun reading compounds

  • 買う 【かう】 to buy, to purchase, to value (highly), to think highly of, to have a high opinion of, to appreciate, to recognize, to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.), to elicit (e.g. sneers), to invite (e.g. scorn), to evoke, to arouse, to win (someone's favour), to accept, to take on, to take up, to pay for (a prostitute, geisha, etc.)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mai3
Korean:
mae

Spanish

  • comprar

Portuguese

  • comprar

French

  • acheter
300 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
212 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
193 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
330 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3637 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
48 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
89 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1753 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
241 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
241 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
188 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1731 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3211 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1662 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2252 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
839 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36708 Morohashi
2598 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5793 New Nelson (John Haig)
831 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
894 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
433 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
221 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3661 2001 Kanji
5g7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-7 SKIP code
6080.6 Four corner code
1-39-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8cb7 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
fishing, fishery
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1094 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 漁業 【ギョギョウ】 fishing industry, fishery
  • 漁獲 【ギョカク】 fishing, catch, haul
  • 出漁 【シュツリョウ】 going fishing, going out to fish
  • 大漁 【タイリョウ】 big catch (fishing), good haul
  • 漁 【リョウ】 fishing, gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed), catch (e.g. of fish), haul
  • 漁師 【リョウシ】 fisherman
  • 大漁 【タイリョウ】 big catch (fishing), good haul
  • 豊漁 【ホウリョウ】 good catch, good haul

Kun reading compounds

  • 漁る 【あさる】 to fish, to look for, to search for, to hunt for, to scavenge, to scrounge, to look through, to rummage through, to go on a spree (spending, reading, etc.), to binge

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu2
Korean:
eo

Spanish

  • pesca

Portuguese

  • pesca
  • pescaria

French

  • pêcher (en masse)
  • pêcherie
588 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
483 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
459 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
628 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2684 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
850 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
707 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2086 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
699 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
712 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
914 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1240 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
856 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
492 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
631 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
174 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18101 Morohashi
698 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3309 New Nelson (John Haig)
172 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
184 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
616 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
340 2001 Kanji
3a11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
3713.6 Four corner code
1-21-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f01 Unicode hex code