Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
kettle, cauldron, iron pot
Kun:
かま
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1761 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 釜山 【プサン】 Busan (South Korea), Pusan
  • 釜中の魚 【フチュウノウオ】 fish in a pot about to be boiled, person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger

Kun reading compounds

  • 釜 【かま】 iron pot, kettle
  • 釜揚げうどん 【かまあげうどん】 straight-from-the-pot udon, udon noodles pulled straight from the pot and served in the hot water used for boiling (traditionally without being soaked in cold water), eaten by dipping in sauce
  • お釜 【おかま】 pot, (volcanic) crater, buttocks, effeminate gay man, male transvestite, (preoperative) transgender woman, (gay) male prostitute
  • 一つ釜 【ひとつかま】 one or the same pot, eating or living together

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu3
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • caldero
  • cacerola
  • olla

Portuguese

French

1621 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2834 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1160 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1131 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2610 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1808 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
40164 Morohashi
2107 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6215 New Nelson (John Haig)
2332 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1367 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2o8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-8 SKIP code
2-4-6 SKIP code
8010.9 Four corner code
1-19-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91dc Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
broil, parch, roast, boil
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2458 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 煎 【セン】 infusing (tea), infusion
  • 煎餅 【センベイ】 (Japanese) rice cracker, senbei
  • 焙煎 【バイセン】 roasting (e.g. of coffee)
  • 香煎 【コウセン】 flour made from parched barley, powdered roast grain mixed with herbs, spices, dried citrus peel, etc. (added to hot water to make a drink)

Kun reading compounds

  • 煎じる 【せんじる】 to boil, to decoct, to infuse
  • 炒る 【いる】 to roast, to parch, to toast, to boil down

Readings

Japanese names:
いり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian1
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

611 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1933 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2950 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2054 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
19184X Morohashi
3453 New Nelson (John Haig)
2548 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
310 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
940 2001 Kanji
2o11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
8033.2 Four corner code
1-32-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
714e Unicode hex code