Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
iron
Kun:
くろがね
On:
テツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
672 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鉄 【テツ】 iron (Fe), steel, iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.), railway, railway enthusiast
  • 鉄製 【テッセイ】 made of iron
  • 国鉄 【コクテツ】 national railway, Japan National Railways (1949-1987)
  • 新日本製鐵 【シンニッポンセイテツ】 Nippon Steel Corporation

Kun reading compounds

  • 黒金 【くろがね】 iron

Readings

Japanese names:
けん、 てっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tie3
Korean:
cheol

Spanish

  • hierro
  • acero

Portuguese

  • ferro

French

  • fer
283 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
374 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
353 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
327 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4844 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
242 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
976 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1948 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
312 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
312 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
147 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1814 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2147 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1126 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1527 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
854 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40285 Morohashi
1711 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6253 New Nelson (John Haig)
846 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
909 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
449 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
422 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2863 2001 Kanji
8a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8513.0 Four corner code
1-37-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9244 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:
Variants:
window, pane
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
1186 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 窓外 【ソウガイ】 outside a window
  • 窓間壁 【ソウカンヘキ】 pier
  • 同窓 【ドウソウ】 being a graduate of the same school, person who went to the same school, fellow alumnus
  • 車窓 【シャソウ】 train window, car window

Kun reading compounds

  • 窓 【まど】 window
  • 窓口 【まどぐち】 counter, window, teller window, ticket window, contact person, point of contact
  • 引違い窓 【ひきちがいまど】 double sliding window
  • 鎧窓 【よろいまど】 louvered window
  • 回転窓 【かいてんまど】 pivoted window

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuang1
Korean:
chang

Spanish

  • ventana
  • habitación

Portuguese

  • janela
  • vidraça

French

  • fenêtre
  • vitre
931 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
919 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
917 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3326 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1029 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
786 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1746 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
698 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
711 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
231 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2859 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1476 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1328 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25494 Morohashi
2294 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4201 New Nelson (John Haig)
749 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
811 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
926 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
758 2001 Kanji
3m8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2-5-6 SKIP code
3033.3 Four corner code
1-33-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a93 Unicode hex code