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那

7 strokes (also 6)
Radical:
town (阝 right) 邑 (阝)
Parts:
二 刀 邦
what?
Kun:
なに、 なんぞ、 いかん
On:
ナ、 ダ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1621 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 那覇 【ナハ】 Naha (city in Okinawa)
  • 那覇港湾空港工事事務所 【ナハコウワンクウコウコウジジムショ】 Naha Harbour and Airport Construction Office
  • 刹那 【セツナ】 moment, instant, kshana, duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second), shortest possible interval of time
  • 印度支那 【インドシナ】 Indochina

Readings

Japanese names:
とも、 やす
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
na4, na1, na3
Korean:
na

Spanish

  • abundante
  • ¿qué?

Portuguese

French

1257 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4757 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
416 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2251 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
826 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1047 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
564 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
748 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
39306X Morohashi
843 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6129 New Nelson (John Haig)
2960 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1992 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2d4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
1-4-2 SKIP code
1752.7 Four corner code
1-38-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
90a3 Unicode hex code

須

12 strokes
Radical:
leaf 頁
Parts:
ハ 彡 目 貝 頁
ought, by all means, necessarily
Kun:
すべから.く、 すべし、 ひげ、 まつ、 もち.いる、 もと.める
On:
ス、 シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 須恵器 【スエキ】 Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era)
  • 須義 【スギ】 cobia (Rachycentron canadum), sergeant fish
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 提宇子 【ダイウス】 God
  • 須髯 【シュゼン】 beard
  • 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)

Kun reading compounds

  • 須らく 【すべからく】 absolutely (ought to), by all means, all, entirely

Readings

Japanese names:
もとむ、 ぞ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu1
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • instante
  • desear
  • anhelar
  • esperar

Portuguese

French

  • nécessité
  • certainement
  • devrait faire
936 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1592 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1946 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1544 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2263 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1531 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
700 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
419 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
526 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1734 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43352 Morohashi
574 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6618 New Nelson (John Haig)
1718 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1854 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3j9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
2128.6 Four corner code
1-31-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9808 Unicode hex code

川

3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
川
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Kun:
かわ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
  • 山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
  • 四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kun reading compounds

  • 川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
  • 川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
  • 堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
  • 山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • arroyo
  • río

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • rio

French

  • rivière
  • fleuve
  • radical rivière (no. 47)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
59 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
48 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
41 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
49 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
20 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
33 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
33 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
101 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
6 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8673 Morohashi
6 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1526 New Nelson (John Haig)
127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
21 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
0a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
2200.0 Four corner code
1-32-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ddd Unicode hex code

将

10 strokes
Radical:
thumb, inch 寸
Parts:
寸 爪 爿
Variants:
將
leader, commander, general, admiral, or, and again, soon, from now on, just about
Kun:
まさ.に、 はた、 まさ、 ひきい.る、 もって
On:
ショウ、 ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
634 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 将 【ショウ】 commander, general, leader
  • 将棋 【ショウギ】 shogi, Japanese chess
  • 少将 【ショウショウ】 major general, rear admiral, air commodore
  • 王将 【オウショウ】 king (of the senior player), Ōshō (one of the eight major titles in professional shogi)

Kun reading compounds

  • 将に 【まさに】 just (about to), on the point of, on the verge of, on the brink of
  • 将 【はた】 or, otherwise, furthermore, also, perhaps, by some chance, possibly, that being said, be that as it may, however, but, not to mention, needless to say, as expected, sure enough, really, at all
  • 将又 【はたまた】 or
  • 将門記 【しょうもんき】 Shōmonki (chronicle of the Taira-no-Masakado Rebellion, ca 940CE)
  • 将に 【まさに】 just (about to), on the point of, on the verge of, on the brink of

Readings

Japanese names:
かつ、 かつり、 すすむ、 たか、 ゆき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiang1, jiang4
Korean:
jang

Spanish

  • líder
  • cargo
  • mando
  • mandar
  • de ahora en adelante

Portuguese

  • líder
  • comandante
  • general
  • almirante
  • ou
  • e outra vez
  • logo
  • de agora em diante
  • somente sobre isto

French

  • dirigeant
  • commandant
  • général
  • amiral
  • ou
  • l'un après l'autre
  • bientôt
  • à partir de maintenant
  • à peu près
911 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
899 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
561 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2840 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
920 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
479 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1040 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
627 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
637 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
830 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
506 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
551 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
336 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
415 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
739 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7437P Morohashi
460 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1379 New Nelson (John Haig)
731 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
789 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
447 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
906 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1248 2001 Kanji
2b8.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3214.9 Four corner code
3714.2 Four corner code
1-30-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c06 Unicode hex code

大

3 strokes
Radical:
big, very 大
Parts:
大
large, big
Kun:
おお-、 おお.きい、 -おお.いに
On:
ダイ、 タイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
7 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 大 【ダイ】 large, big, great, huge, vast, major, important, serious, severe, great, prominent, eminent, distinguished, -sized, as big as, the size of, university, large (e.g. serving size), large option, long month (i.e. having 31 days)
  • 大尉 【タイイ】 captain (Army, US Marine Corps, USAF), lieutenant (Navy), flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.)
  • 国大 【コクダイ】 national university
  • 電通大 【デンツウダイ】 University of Electro-Communications
  • 大 【タイ】 nth year in the Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25)
  • 大尉 【タイイ】 captain (Army, US Marine Corps, USAF), lieutenant (Navy), flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.)
  • 御大 【オンタイ】 boss, governor, headman

Kun reading compounds

  • 大きい 【おおきい】 big, large, great, loud, extensive, spacious, important, decisive, valuable, older, grown up

Readings

Japanese names:
うふ、 お、 おう、 た、 たかし、 とも、 はじめ、 ひろ、 ひろし、 まさ、 まさる、 もと、 わ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
da4, dai4
Korean:
dae, da, tae

Spanish

  • grande
  • muy
  • mucho

Portuguese

  • grande
  • enorme

French

  • grand
22 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
25 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
53 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
7 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1171 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
40 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
48 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
26 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
26 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
87 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
408 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4224 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2882 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
108 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5831 Morohashi
3416 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1133 New Nelson (John Haig)
107 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
112 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
5 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
14 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1463 2001 Kanji
0a3.18 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-4 SKIP code
4003.0 Four corner code
1-34-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5927 Unicode hex code