| 1208 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1768 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 5307 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1345 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1921 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2831 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 700 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 713 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 915 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1933 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2361 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1214 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1661 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 321 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 46257 | Morohashi |
| 1882 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6886 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 315 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 337 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1927 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1486 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鯨肉 【ゲイニク】 whale meat
- 鯨飲 【ゲイイン】 drinking hard, drinking like a fish
- 酔鯨 【スイゲイ】 Suigei
- 白鯨 【ハクゲイ】 Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
Kun reading compounds
- 鯨 【くじら】 whale (Cetacea spp.)
- 鯨肉 【げいにく】 whale meat
- タスマニア鯨 【タスマニアくじら】 Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
- 五島鯨 【ごとうくじら】 larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
Readings
- Korean:
- gyeong
Spanish
- ballena
Portuguese
- baleia
French
- baleine
| 2541 | 2001 Kanji |
| 11a8.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-11-8 | SKIP code |
| 2039.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-23-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9be8 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
746 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 帯 【タイ】 band (e.g. conduction, valence), belt (e.g. Van-Allen, asteroid, etc.)
- 帯状疱疹 【タイジョウホウシン】 shingles, herpes zoster
- 付帯 【フタイ】 incidental, ancillary, accessory, secondary, collateral
- 亜熱帯 【アネッタイ】 subtropics
Kun reading compounds
- 帯びる 【おびる】 to wear (a sword, decoration, etc.), to carry, to bear, to be entrusted with (a mission), to be charged with, to take on, to have (a quality, property, etc.), to have a trace of, to be tinged with
- 帯 【おび】 obi (kimono sash), obi (strip of paper looped around a book, CD, etc. containing information about the product), band, belt, strip, cingulum, radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days
- 帯びる 【おびる】 to wear (a sword, decoration, etc.), to carry, to bear, to be entrusted with (a mission), to be charged with, to take on, to have (a quality, property, etc.), to have a trace of, to be tinged with
- 単帯 【ひとえおび】 unlined sash
- 赤帯 【あかおび】 red sash, red belt
Readings
- Japanese names:
- たて
- Korean:
- dae
Spanish
- faja
- cinturón
- zona
- región
- llevar
- transportar
- ceñirse
Portuguese
- Faixa
- cinto
- obi
- zona
- região
French
- ceinture
- écharpe
- obi
- zone
- région
| 669 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 566 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 539 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 718 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1474 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 614 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 498 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1192 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 963 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 994 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1065 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 565 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3191 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1648 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2237 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 422 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 8929 | Morohashi |
| 2582 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1563 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 415 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 444 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 552 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1944 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3f7.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-5-5 | SKIP code |
| 2-4-5 | SKIP code |
| 4422.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-34-51 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5e2f | Unicode hex code |