Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
be hazy, grow dim, blurred
Kun:
かすみかす.む
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1603 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 霞 【カスミ】 haze (esp. in spring), mist, dimness (of sight)
  • 霞む 【カスム】 to become misty, to become hazy, to get blurry, to grow dim, to be overshadowed, to be upstaged, to be outshone
  • 紅霞 【コウカ】 crimson mist, crimson-tinted clouds (e.g. at sunset)
  • 朝霞 【アサガスミ】 morning glow, morning mist (haze)

Kun reading compounds

  • 霞 【かすみ】 haze (esp. in spring), mist, dimness (of sight)
  • かすみ網 【かすみあみ】 mist net (fine mesh for capturing small birds)
  • 雲霞 【うんか】 clouds and haze, swarm (of people), throng, drove, (flee) like the wind, (run) out of sight
  • 霞む 【かすむ】 to become misty, to become hazy, to get blurry, to grow dim, to be overshadowed, to be upstaged, to be outshone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xia2
Korean:
ha

Spanish

  • neblina
  • bruma
  • estar brumoso
  • estar nebuloso

Portuguese

French

1530 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5063 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2693 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2261 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3490 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1800 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
42365 Morohashi
2814 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6541 New Nelson (John Haig)
2779 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2800 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3167 2001 Kanji
8d9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-9 SKIP code
1074.7 Four corner code
1024.7 Four corner code
1-18-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
971e Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
gate
Parts:
Variants:
connection, barrier, gateway, involve, concerning
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
70 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 関 【カン】 barrier, gate
  • 関係 【カンケイ】 relation, relationship, connection, participation, involvement, concern, influence, effect, sexual relations, sexual relationship, related to, connected to
  • 連関 【レンカン】 connection, relation, linkage
  • 通関 【ツウカン】 customs clearance

Kun reading compounds

  • 関 【せき】 barrier, gate, seki, mutual life
  • 関取 【せきとり】 ranking wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions
  • 霞ヶ関 【かすみがせき】 Kasumigaseki, district of Tokyo where most of Japan's government ministry offices are located, government ministries (of Japan), Japanese government bureaucracy
  • 関わる 【かかわる】 to be affected, to be influenced, to be concerned with, to have to do with, to stick to (opinions)
  • 覗き機関 【のぞきからくり】 peep show, device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures
  • 水機関 【みずからくり】 puppet powered by (falling) water, water-powered contrivance, show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guan1
Korean:
gwan, wan

Spanish

  • barrera
  • puerta
  • relación
  • mecanismo
  • valla

Portuguese

  • conexão
  • obstáculo
  • passagem
  • emvolver
  • concernente

French

  • relation
  • barrière
  • lien
  • rapport
  • concerner
365 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
467 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
444 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
104 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4958 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
289 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
982 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2245 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.7 Japanese for Busy People
398 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
402 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
446 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1844 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4129 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2099 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2842 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2036 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41297 Morohashi
3328 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6402 New Nelson (John Haig)
2017 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2173 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
84 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
614 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3863 2001 Kanji
8e6.7 The Kanji Dictionary
3-8-6 SKIP code
7743.0 Four corner code
1-20-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
95a2 Unicode hex code