Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
steel
Kun:
はがね
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1246 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鋼 【ハガネ】 steel, sword steel, sword
  • 鋼材 【コウザイ】 steel material
  • 粗鋼 【ソコウ】 crude steel
  • 製鋼 【セイコウ】 steel manufacture

Kun reading compounds

  • 鋼 【はがね】 steel, sword steel, sword
  • 鋼色 【はがねいろ】 steel blue
  • 玉鋼 【たまはがね】 traditional Japanese steel made from iron sand (esp. for use in swords)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gang1, gang4
Korean:
gang

Spanish

  • acero

Portuguese

  • aço

French

  • acier
874 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
864 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
867 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4883 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1509 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1851 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1608 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1715 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1337 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1825 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2183 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1145 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1551 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1981 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40509 Morohashi
1740 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6302 New Nelson (John Haig)
1962 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2113 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
992 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2853 2001 Kanji
8a8.20 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-8 SKIP code
8712.0 Four corner code
1-25-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
92fc Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
lumber, log, timber, wood, materials, ingredients, talent
On:
ザイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
565 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 材 【ザイ】 wood, lumber, timber, (raw) material, stuff, talent, ability, capable person
  • 材質 【ザイシツ】 material, material properties, quality of material, quality of wood, quality of lumber
  • 器材 【キザイ】 tools and materials, equipment and materials
  • 廃材 【ハイザイ】 scrap wood, waste wood, waste, waste material, scrap material

Readings

Japanese names:
き、 さい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cai2
Korean:
jae

Spanish

  • talento
  • habilidad
  • material
  • leño

Portuguese

  • tábuas
  • registro
  • pau
  • madeira
  • talento

French

  • matériaux
  • ingrédients
  • bois de charpente
  • bille de bois
  • bûche
  • talent
403 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
511 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
485 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
590 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2189 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
284 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
619 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
420 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
552 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
561 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
740 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1071 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1031 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
560 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
740 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
690 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14463 Morohashi
836 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2561 New Nelson (John Haig)
683 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
738 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
481 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1847 2001 Kanji
4a3.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4490.0 Four corner code
1-26-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6750 Unicode hex code