Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
meal, boiled rice
Kun:
めし
On:
ハン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N4
1046 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 飯店 【ハンテン】 Chinese restaurant
  • 飯切 【ハンギリ】 flat-bottomed wooden bowl for preparing sushi rice
  • 米飯 【ベイハン】 cooked rice
  • 赤飯 【セキハン】 red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions

Kun reading compounds

  • 飯 【めし】 cooked rice, meal, food, one's living, livelihood
  • 飯売女 【めしうりおんな】 maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period)
  • 握り飯 【にぎりめし】 onigiri, rice ball
  • 冷や飯 【ひやめし】 cold rice, hanger-on, dependent, disgraced former actor

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 いい、 いり、 え
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fan4
Korean:
ban

Spanish

  • comida
  • arroz cocido

Portuguese

  • refeição
  • arroz cozido

French

  • repas
  • riz bouilli
696 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
594 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
565 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1083 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5158 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
768 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
279 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1964 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.12 Japanese for Busy People
325 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
325 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
604 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1904 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2126 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1110 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1509 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1485 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44064P Morohashi
1691 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6679 New Nelson (John Haig)
1473 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1583 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
597 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2867 2001 Kanji
8b4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-4 SKIP code
8174.7 Four corner code
1-40-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98ef Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
grains, drop, counter for tiny particles
Kun:
つぶ
On:
リュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1635 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 粒 【ツブ】 grain, bead, drop, counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
  • 粒子 【リュウシ】 particle, grain
  • 細粒 【サイリュウ】 fine grain, fine granule, microsphere
  • 粒々 【リュウリュウ】 each grain, every grain

Kun reading compounds

  • 粒 【つぶ】 grain, bead, drop, counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
  • 粒状 【りゅうじょう】 granular, granulated
  • 米粒 【こめつぶ】 grain of rice
  • 小粒 【こつぶ】 small grain, small stature or ability

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
rib

Spanish

  • grano
  • gota
  • contador para partículas diminutas

Portuguese

  • graões
  • gota
  • sufixo para contagem de partículas pequeninas

French

  • grain
  • goutte
  • compteur de particules
1900 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1525 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3471 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1654 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
805 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1389 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1700 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1816 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1558 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1498 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1682 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
894 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1213 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
931 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
26884 Morohashi
1328 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4392 New Nelson (John Haig)
922 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
990 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1471 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1073 2001 Kanji
6b5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
9091.8 Four corner code
1-46-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c92 Unicode hex code