Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
second 乛 (乙, ⺄, 乚)
Parts:
milk, breasts
Kun:
ちち
On:
ニュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1289 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 乳製品 【ニュウセイヒン】 dairy products
  • 乳児 【ニュウジ】 infant (below 1 year old), suckling baby
  • 豆乳 【トウニュウ】 soy milk
  • 生乳 【セイニュウ】 raw milk

Kun reading compounds

  • 乳 【ちち】 milk, breast, loop, decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
  • 乳首 【ちくび】 nipple, teat
  • 無い乳 【ないちち】 very small breasts
  • もらい乳 【もらいぢち】 having one's baby nursed by another woman, wet-nursing, breast milk received from another woman
  • 乳 【ちち】 milk, breast, loop, decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
  • 乳房 【ちぶさ】 breast, udder
  • 無い乳 【ないちち】 very small breasts
  • もらい乳 【もらいぢち】 having one's baby nursed by another woman, wet-nursing, breast milk received from another woman

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ru3
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • leche
  • pecho

Portuguese

  • leite
  • peitos

French

  • lait
  • seins
961 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
951 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
873 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
266 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1216 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
291 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
657 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
939 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
969 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
821 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
29 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1823 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1306 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
737 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
190X Morohashi
1438 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
61 New Nelson (John Haig)
729 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
786 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
871 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2056 2001 Kanji
3n4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-1 SKIP code
1-6-1 SKIP code
2241.0 Four corner code
1-38-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e73 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 暈 【カサ】 halo (around the Sun, Moon, etc.), ring, corona
  • 繧繝 【ウンゲン】 ungen, method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense; used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods
  • 乳暈 【ニュウウン】 areola mammae (circular area around nipple), areola
  • 日暈 【ヒガサ】 solar halo

Kun reading compounds

  • 暈す 【ぼかす】 to blur, to shade off, to gradate, to obscure, to make ambiguous
  • 暈ける 【ぼける】 to be faded, to be hazy, to be blurred, to be out of focus
  • 暈 【かさ】 halo (around the Sun, Moon, etc.), ring, corona
  • 隈 【くま】 corner, nook, recess, shade, shadow, dark area, dark circles (under the eyes), dark rings, bend (in a road, river, etc.), shading, gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles
  • 隈取り 【くまどり】 shading, (colour) gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles
  • 暈し 【ぼかし】 blurring (e.g. of an image), blur, gradient, gradation, shading, bokashi composting, fermented composting
  • ぼかし染め 【ぼかしぞめ】 gradation dyeing

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yun1, yun4
Korean:
hun, un

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2151 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1997 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
14037 Morohashi
2500 New Nelson (John Haig)
2439 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2516 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4c9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-9 SKIP code
6050.6 Four corner code
1-58-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6688 Unicode hex code