Jisho

×

3 strokes
Radical:
slash 丿
Parts:
long time, old story
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
688 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 旧痾 【キュウア】 persistent disease
  • 久安 【キュウアン】 Kyūan era (1145.7.22-1151.1.26)
  • 恒久 【コウキュウ】 permanence, perpetuity
  • 耐久 【タイキュウ】 endurance, persistence
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 久遠 【クオン】 eternity
  • 上手く行く 【ウマクイク】 to go smoothly, to turn out well, to do the trick, to have peaceful relations
  • 阿摩美久 【アマミキヨ】 Amamikyu (Ryukyuan religion creation goddess)

Kun reading compounds

  • 久しい 【ひさしい】 long (time that has passed), old (story)

Readings

Japanese names:
きゅ、 わ、 なが、 ひさ、 ひさし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiu3
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • mucho tiempo
  • largo tiempo
  • largo
  • continuado por mucho tiempo

Portuguese

  • tempo longo
  • estória antiga

French

  • longtemps
  • vieille histoire
582 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
676 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
647 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
591 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
153 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
704 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
289 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
45 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1210 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1273 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1097 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
20 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4191 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2121 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2867 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1025 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
118 Morohashi
3384 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
47 New Nelson (John Haig)
1016 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1092 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
641 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2562 2001 Kanji
0a3.7 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-3-4 SKIP code
2780.0 Four corner code
1-21-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e45 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 天空海濶 【テンクウカイカツ】 the open sky and the serene sea, as open as the sky and serene as the sea, magnanimous
  • 広闊 【コウカツ】 spaciousness, extensiveness, expansiveness, vastness

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuo4
Korean:
hwal, gwal

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2721 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2611 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
982 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
18547 Morohashi
3364 New Nelson (John Haig)
8e9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-14 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-79-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6ff6 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
right hand
Parts:
Variants:
confer, relate, narrate, describe
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1954 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 叙情 【ジョジョウ】 lyricism, description of one's feelings
  • 叙勲 【ジョクン】 conferring of decorations
  • 倒叙 【トウジョ】 reverse chronological order
  • 昇叙 【ショウジョ】 promotion, advancement

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu4
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • relato
  • narración
  • descripción

Portuguese

  • confira
  • relaciona
  • narra
  • descreve

French

  • conférer
  • relater
  • raconter
  • décrire
1384 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1574 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
862 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1476 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1122 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
893 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1067 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1114 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1617 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
272 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1834 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
970 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1314 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1676 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3163 Morohashi
1446 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
681 New Nelson (John Haig)
1660 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1789 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1238 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2867 2001 Kanji
2h7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-2 SKIP code
8794.0 Four corner code
1-29-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53d9 Unicode hex code