Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
jade (king) 玉 (王)
Parts:
Variants:
polish
Kun:
みが.く
On:
タク
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 琢磨 【タクマ】 polish (jewels), cultivation
  • 彫琢 【チョウタク】 carving and polishing

Kun reading compounds

  • 磨く 【みがく】 to polish, to shine, to burnish, to scour, to scrub, to brush (teeth), to grind (e.g. a lens), to refine (a skill, etc.), to improve, to hone, to polish (up), to cultivate (one's character)

Readings

Japanese names:
あや、 たか
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhuo2, zuo2
Korean:
tag

Spanish

  • brillo
  • esmalte
  • abrillantar

Portuguese

French

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1222 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
661 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
883 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
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971 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3640 New Nelson (John Haig)
2560 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2613 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4f8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
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1113.2 Four corner code
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7422 Unicode hex code