| 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 junior high
JLPT level N2
1548 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 脂肪 【シボウ】 fat, grease, blubber, lard, suet
- 脂質 【シシツ】 lipid
- 樹脂 【ジュシ】 resin, rosin
- 皮脂 【ヒシ】 sebum, sebaceous matter
Kun reading compounds
- 脂 【あぶら】 fat, tallow, lard, grease
- 脂っこい 【あぶらっこい】 greasy, fatty, oily
- 背脂 【せあぶら】 back fat, fatty upper part of roast pork
Readings
- Korean:
- ji
Spanish
- grasa
- sebo
- resina
Portuguese
- gordura
- graxa
- sêbo
- banha
- resina
- goma
- asfalto
French
- gras
- graisse
- suif
- lard
- résine
- gomme
- goudron
| 1319 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1505 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3766 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1577 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 848 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1042 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1083 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1350 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1031 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1190 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 649 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 861 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 466 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 29463 | Morohashi |
| 954 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4808 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 456 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 494 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1345 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3978 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4b6.7 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-6 | SKIP code |
| 7226.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-73 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8102 | Unicode hex code |