| 101 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 830 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 567 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 155 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 922 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 288 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 40 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 644 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 654 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 591 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 17 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4225 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2134 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2883 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 44 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 94 | Morohashi |
| 3417 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 34 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 44 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 44 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 82 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
round, full (month), perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
542 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 丸 【ガン】 fishball, meatball, pill
- 丸剤 【ガンザイ】 pill
- 一丸 【イチガン】 one lump, one body, one group
- 雷丸 【ライガン】 raigan (Omphalia lapidescens), parasitic fungus which grows on bamboo, used in Chinese medicine
Kun reading compounds
- 丸 【まる】 circle, entirety, whole, full, complete, money, dough, moola, enclosure inside a castle's walls, soft-shelled turtle, suffix for ship names, suffix for names of people (esp. infants), suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc., suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
- 丸い 【まるい】 round, circular, spherical, curved, smooth, harmonious, calm, peaceful, amiable, amicable
- 本丸 【ほんまる】 inner citadel, core, center, centre, focus, crux
- 大丸 【だいまる】 Daimaru, Daimaru (Japanese department store chain)
- 丸める 【まるめる】 to make round, to roll up, to curl up, to seduce, to cajole, to explain away, to round off (a fraction), to shave (one's head), to lump together
- 丸い 【まるい】 round, circular, spherical, curved, smooth, harmonious, calm, peaceful, amiable, amicable
- 丸井 【まるい】 Marui, Marui (retailer)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ま、 わ、 わに
- Korean:
- hwan
Spanish
- redondo
- circular
- círculo
- redondear
Portuguese
- arredondar
- cheio
- mês
- perfeição
- -nave
- pílulas
- espiral para cima
- seduzir
French
- rond
- arrondir
- entier (mois)
- pilule
- perfection
- suffixe des bateaux
- se pelotonner
- se rouler en boule
- séduire
- justifier
| 1657 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a3.28 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-3-4 | SKIP code |
| 5001.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-20-61 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 4e38 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
- 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
- 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
- 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
- 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
- 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
- 読点 【トウテン】 comma
- 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
- 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)
Kun reading compounds
- 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
Readings
- Japanese names:
- よみ
- Korean:
- dog, du
Spanish
- leer
Portuguese
- leia
French
- lire
| 123 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 206 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 189 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 484 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4375 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 55 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 88 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2142 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 244 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 244 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 180 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1689 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1943 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1038 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1401 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 354 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 35580P | Morohashi |
| 1541 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5629 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 348 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 372 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 323 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 233 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3057 | 2001 Kanji |
| 7a7.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-7-7 | SKIP code |
| 0461.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-38-41 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8aad | Unicode hex code |