1280 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1655 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
5278 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1584 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1917 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
2488 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1525 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1626 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1754 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1927 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
1346 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
729 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
975 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
2040 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
45787 | Morohashi |
1063 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6835 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
2021 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
2177 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1746 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1748 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 魂 【コン】 Yang energy, spirit
- 魂胆 【コンタン】 ulterior motive, plot, scheme, complicated circumstances, intricacies
- 鎮魂 【チンコン】 repose of a soul, ceremony for the repose of a departed soul
- 入魂 【ニュウコン】 putting one's heart and soul (into), giving one's all, breathing a soul into (e.g. a Buddhist statue), intimacy, familiarity
Kun reading compounds
- 魂 【たましい】 soul, spirit
- 魂不死説 【たましいふしせつ】 (theory of) the immortality of the soul
- 一寸の虫にも五分の魂 【いっすんのむしにもごぶのたましい】 tread on a worm and it will turn, even a tiny bug will defend itself, even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them
- 死せる魂 【しせるたましい】 Dead Souls (novel by Gogol), Myortvye dushi
- 魂 【たましい】 soul, spirit
- 魂送り 【たまおくり】 sending off the spirits of the dead
- 稲魂 【うかのみたま】 the god of foodstuffs (esp. of rice)
- 亡き魂 【なきたま】 departed soul, spirit
Readings
- Korean:
- hon
Spanish
- alma
- espíritu
- corazón
Portuguese
- alma
- espírito
French
- âme
- esprit
3057 | 2001 Kanji |
5f9.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-4-10 | SKIP code |
1671.3 | Four corner code |
1-26-18 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
9b42 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
345 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 消火 【ショウカ】 fire fighting, extinguishing a fire
- 消化 【ショウカ】 digestion (of food), digestion (of information), assimilation, thorough understanding, consumption, absorption, using up, meeting (e.g. a quota), completion, losing one's form and turning into something else
- 費消 【ヒショウ】 spending, consumption, misappropriation, embezzlement
- 曖昧性解消 【アイマイセイカイショウ】 disambiguation
Kun reading compounds
- 消える 【きえる】 to disappear, to vanish, to go out of sight, to go away, to become lost, to go out (of a fire, light, etc.), to die, to turn off (e.g. of a TV screen), to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.), to vanish (e.g. of hope), to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness), to disappear, to fade away (e.g. of footsteps), to wear away (e.g. of an inscription), to rub out (of writing), to fade (e.g. of ink), to be lost (e.g. of a tradition), to die out, to disappear
- 消す 【けす】 to erase, to rub out, to rub off, to cross out, to delete, to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.), to switch off, to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.), to put out, to remove (a smell, pain, etc.), to eliminate, to get rid of, to relieve (pain, anxiety, etc.), to neutralize (poison), to drown out (a sound), to deaden, to absorb, to muffle, to kill, to murder, to bump off, to rub out
Readings
- Korean:
- so
Spanish
- extinguirse
- apagarse
- desaparecer
- apagar
- extinguir
Portuguese
- extinguir
- apagar
- desligar
- neutralizar
- cancelar
French
- éteindre
- effacer
- disparaître
- neutraliser
- annuler
429 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
332 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
316 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
336 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
2574 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
612 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
686 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
845 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
864 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
219 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1194 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
531 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
327 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
402 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
146 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
17529P | Morohashi |
443 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3158 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
144 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
155 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
458 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
357 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
346 | 2001 Kanji |
3a7.16 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-3-7 | SKIP code |
3912.7 | Four corner code |
1-30-35 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
6d88 | Unicode hex code |