Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
Variants:
fog, mist
Kun:
きり
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1747 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 霧化 【ムカ】 atomization
  • 霧虹 【キリニジ】 fog bow, fogbow, mistbow, white rainbow
  • 夕霧 【ユウギリ】 evening mist
  • 海霧 【カイム】 sea fog
  • 蓮霧 【レンブ】 wax apple (Syzygium samarangense), Java apple

Kun reading compounds

  • 霧 【きり】 fog, mist, spray
  • 霧雨 【きりさめ】 drizzle, light rain
  • 黒い霧 【くろいきり】 thick fog (of suspicion), black veil of secrecy, covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
  • 雲霧 【うんむ】 clouds and fog

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu4
Korean:
mu

Spanish

  • niebla
  • neblina

Portuguese

  • nevoeiro
  • névoa
  • neblina

French

  • brouillard
  • brume
1845 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1088 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5065 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1038 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1893 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2846 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
950 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
980 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
845 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1869 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3493 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1802 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2452 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1236 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42418 Morohashi
2817 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6545 New Nelson (John Haig)
1228 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1314 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1924 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3145 2001 Kanji
8d11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-11 SKIP code
1022.7 Four corner code
1-44-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9727 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
spoon
Parts:
change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
89 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 化 【カ】 change to ..., becoming ..., making into ..., -ization, -ification
  • 化学 【カガク】 chemistry
  • 機械化 【キカイカ】 mechanization, mechanisation
  • 民営化 【ミンエイカ】 privatization, privatisation
  • 化粧 【ケショウ】 make-up, makeup, cosmetics, decoration, dressing, veneer
  • 化粧水 【ケショウスイ】 skin lotion, face lotion
  • 応化 【オウゲ】 assumption of a suitable form (by a buddha or bodhisattva)
  • 教化 【キョウケ】 guidance, teaching people and leading them to Buddhism

Kun reading compounds

  • 化ける 【ばける】 to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.), to assume the shape of, to turn oneself into, to transform oneself into, to disguise oneself as, to change radically, to metamorphose, to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
  • 化かす 【ばかす】 to bewitch, to confuse, to enchant, to delude
  • 老ける 【ふける】 to age, to grow old (esp. in appearance), to show marks of age

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua4
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • cambiar
  • transformarse
  • modificarse
  • disfrazarse

Portuguese

  • mudança
  • tomar a forma de
  • influência
  • encantar
  • iludir
  • seduzir
  • -isação

French

  • transformation
  • prendre la forme de
  • maquillage
  • influence
  • fantôme
  • enchanter
  • tromper
  • chimie
  • -isation
163 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
258 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
238 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
100 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
350 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
76 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
378 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
56 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.19 Japanese for Busy People
254 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
254 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
414 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
55 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
22 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1017 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2572X Morohashi
21 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
580 New Nelson (John Haig)
1008 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1083 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
104 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
242 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2156 2001 Kanji
2a2.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-2 SKIP code
2121.0 Four corner code
2421.0 Four corner code
1-18-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5316 Unicode hex code