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

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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

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 黄粱 【コウリョウ】 foxtail millet (Setaria italica), Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
  • 高粱 【コウリョウ】 kaoliang, variety of sorghum, esp. used in making spirits

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
liang2
Korean:
ryang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

26962 Morohashi
4405 New Nelson (John Haig)
6b7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-7-6 SKIP code
3390.4 Four corner code
3790.4 Four corner code
1-68-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7cb1 Unicode hex code

1 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
one, one radical (no.1)
Kun:
ひと-ひと.つ
On:
イチイツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
2 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 一 【イチ】 one, 1, best, first, foremost, beginning, start, a (single), one (of many), ace, bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)
  • 一位 【イチイ】 first place, first rank, units position (of a number)
  • 十一 【ジュウイチ】 eleven, 11, jack
  • 1対1 【イチタイイチ】 one-to-one, one-on-one
  • 一 【イツ】 one, same (mind, path, etc.)
  • 一に 【イツニ】 solely, entirely, only, or
  • 均一 【キンイツ】 uniformity, equality
  • 画一 【カクイツ】 uniformity, standardization, standardisation

Kun reading compounds

  • 一つ 【ひとつ】 one, for one thing, only, (not) even, just (e.g. "just try it"), some kind of, one type of
  • 一つ一つ 【ひとつひとつ】 one-by-one, separately, in detail

Readings

Japanese names:
かず、 い、 いっ、 いる、 かつ、 かづ、 てん、 はじめ、 ひ、 ひとつ、 まこと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi1
Korean:
il

Spanish

  • uno
  • 1

Portuguese

  • um

French

  • un
  • radical un (no. 1)
1 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
1 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
4 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
2 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4148 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2105 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2850 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1 Morohashi
3341 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 New Nelson (John Haig)
1 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
1 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3072 2001 Kanji
0a1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-1-4 SKIP code
1000.0 Four corner code
1-16-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e00 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
cook, boil
Kun:
た.く-だ.き
On:
スイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1777 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 炊飯器 【スイハンキ】 rice cooker
  • 炊事 【スイジ】 cooking, kitchen work
  • 雑炊 【ゾウスイ】 rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce
  • 烹炊 【ホウスイ】 cooking by boiling

Kun reading compounds

  • 炊く 【たく】 to cook (grains, e.g. rice), to boil, to simmer, to stew, to seethe, to get angry, to snap

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chui1, chui4
Korean:
chwi

Spanish

  • cocinar
  • hervir
  • cocer

Portuguese

  • cozinhar
  • ferver

French

  • cuisiner
  • cuire
1453 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1774 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2752 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1626 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1512 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
602 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1791 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1927 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1311 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1265 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1080 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
584 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
773 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
479 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18904 Morohashi
870 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3405 New Nelson (John Haig)
468 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
507 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1208 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1162 2001 Kanji
4d4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
9788.2 Four corner code
1-31-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
708a Unicode hex code