Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
deer 鹿
Parts:
广 鹿
Chinese unicorn, genius, giraffe, bright, shining
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 麒麟 【キリン】 giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), qilin (Chinese unicorn), horse that can ride 1000 ri in a day
  • 麒麟竭 【キリンケツ】 dragon's blood palm (Daemonorops draco), bright red resin used in medicine, dyes, etc.

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi2
Korean:
gi

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5380 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2363 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1662 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
47657 Morohashi
7025 New Nelson (John Haig)
2840 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2854 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3q16.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-8 SKIP code
0428.1 Four corner code
1-83-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9e92 Unicode hex code

24 strokes (also 23)
Radical:
deer 鹿
Parts:
广 鹿
Chinese unicorn, genius, giraffe, bright, shining
On:
リン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • マサイ麒麟 【マサイキリン】 masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchii), maasai giraffe, Kilimanjaro giraffe
  • 木麒麟 【モッキリン】 Barbados shrub (Pereskia aculeata), Barbados gooseberry, leaf cactus, lemonvine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lin2
Korean:
rin

Spanish

  • unicornio chino
  • genio
  • jirafa
  • brillante
  • resplandeciente

Portuguese

French

5383 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3000 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2280 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2376 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1215 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1669 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
47690 Morohashi
7028 New Nelson (John Haig)
2053 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2210 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6b18.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-13 SKIP code
0925.9 Four corner code
1-46-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9e9f Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
Kun:
くさくさ--ぐさ
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
967 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 草 【ソウ】 draft, rough copy, highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters), grass style
  • 草案 【ソウアン】 draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
  • 除草 【ジョソウ】 weeding
  • 起草 【キソウ】 drafting (e.g. a bill), drawing up

Kun reading compounds

  • 草 【くさ】 grass, weed, herb, thatch, ninja, marijuana, cannabis, not genuine, substandard, LOL, haha
  • 草刈り 【くさかり】 mowing, mower
  • 水草 【みずくさ】 water plant, aquatic plant, waterweed, hydrophyte
  • 若草 【わかくさ】 green grass, young (fresh) grass

Readings

Japanese names:
そ、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao3
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • hierba
  • planta

Portuguese

  • grama
  • erva daninha
  • ervas
  • pasto
  • escrever
  • esboçar

French

  • herbe
  • mauvaise herbe
  • plantes
  • pâturage
  • écrire
  • ébauche
106 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
57 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
162 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
705 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3939 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
118 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
865 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
934 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
249 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
249 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
567 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
652 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2813 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1953 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
229 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30945P Morohashi
2263 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5032 New Nelson (John Haig)
224 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
238 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
77 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1955 2001 Kanji
3k6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4440.6 Four corner code
1-33-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8349 Unicode hex code