Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
yellow
Parts:
yellow
Kun:
こ-
On:
コウオウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
1240 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 黄色 【キイロ】 yellow, amber
  • 黄昏 【タソガレ】 dusk, twilight, twilight years, melancholia, melancholic nostalgia
  • 玄黄 【ゲンコウ】 black and yellow silk (offered to gods), heaven and earth
  • 天地玄黄 【テンチゲンコウ】 heaven is black and earth is yellow, heaven and earth
  • 黄金時代 【オウゴンジダイ】 golden age
  • 黄金 【オウゴン】 gold (Au), golden, prosperous, excellent, superb, money (esp. ōban coin), cash
  • 卵黄 【ランオウ】 egg yolk
  • 六フッ化硫黄 【ロクフッカイオウ】 sulfur hexafluoride, SF6

Kun reading compounds

  • 黄 【き】 yellow
  • 黄色 【きいろ】 yellow, amber
  • 海気 【かいき】 sea air, sea breeze, ocean and atmosphere, type of yarn-dyed silk goods

Readings

Japanese names:
うい、 れい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huang2
Korean:
hwang

Spanish

  • amarillo

Portuguese

  • amarelo

French

  • jaune
214 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
133 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
120 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1063 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5399 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
469 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1021 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1499 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
780 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
794 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
993 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1939 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3116 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1596 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2177 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1766 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
47926P Morohashi
2468 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7045 New Nelson (John Haig)
1750 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1887 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
203 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1961 2001 Kanji
3k8.16 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-7 SKIP code
2-9-2 SKIP code
2-3-8 SKIP code
4480.6 Four corner code
1-18-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9ec4 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
sign 示 (礻)
Parts:
Variants:
calamity, misfortune, evil, curse
Kun:
わざわい
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2010 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 禍 【カ】 disaster, calamity, misfortune
  • 禍根 【カコン】 root of an evil, source of a problem, source of trouble, cause of misfortune
  • コロナ禍 【コロナカ】 COVID-19 pandemic, coronavirus crisis, COVID-19 crisis
  • 惨禍 【サンカ】 calamity, disaster, catastrophe

Kun reading compounds

  • 災い 【わざわい】 disaster, calamity, misfortune, trouble, woes
  • 災いする 【わざわいする】 to be one's ruin, to do harm, to cause trouble, to have negative consequences, to bring about a bad outcome

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huo4
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • calamidad
  • desgracia
  • infortunio

Portuguese

  • calamidade
  • desgraça
  • mal
  • maldição

French

  • calamité
  • malchance
  • mal
  • malédiction
1051 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1753 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3254 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1756 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1581 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1885 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1809 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1948 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1543 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1425 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1304 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
706 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
945 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1300 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24766P Morohashi
1030 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4102 New Nelson (John Haig)
1291 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1386 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1653 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
649 2001 Kanji
4e9.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
3722.7 Four corner code
1-18-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
798d Unicode hex code