Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
bird
Parts:
wild duck, easy mark
Kun:
かもあひる
On:
オウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1797 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 鴨 【かも】 duck, easy mark, sucker, sitting duck
  • 鴨居 【かもい】 lintel (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors)
  • いい鴨 【いいかも】 desirable prey, easy game, easy mark, easy prey, easy target

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ya1
Korean:
ab

Spanish

  • pato salvaje

Portuguese

French

1570 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
121 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2489 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1582 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1143 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
46823 Morohashi
6955 New Nelson (John Haig)
2835 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2850 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11b5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-11 SKIP code
6752.7 Four corner code
1-19-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d28 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かやちがや
On:
ボウミョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1895 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 茅屋 【ボウオク】 thatched cottage, hovel, my humble cottage
  • 茅茨 【ボウシ】 thatched roof, cogon grass and thorny shrubs (materials for thatching roofs)

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 茅場 【かやば】 hayfield, field of miscanthus
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 茅 【ちがや】 cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Readings

Japanese names:
ち、 じ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mao2
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • gramíneas (junco
  • heno
  • etc.)

Portuguese

French

3924 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
690 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2214 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2779 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1425 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1922 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30836X Morohashi
5005 New Nelson (John Haig)
2385 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2468 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4422.2 Four corner code
1-19-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8305 Unicode hex code