Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
lid
Parts:
sign of the hog, 9-11PM, twelfth sign of the Chinese zodiac
Kun:
On:
ガイカイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

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On reading compounds

  • 亥月 【ガイゲツ】 tenth month of the lunar calendar
  • 丁亥 【テイガイ】 Fire Boar (24th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1947, 2007, 2067)
  • 己亥 【ツチノトイ】 Earth Boar (36th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1959, 2019, 2079)

Kun reading compounds

  • 亥 【い】 the Boar (twelfth sign of the Chinese zodiac), the Pig, hour of the Boar (around 10pm, 9-11pm, or 10pm to 12 midnight), north-northwest, tenth month of the lunar calendar
  • 亥年 【いどし】 year of the Boar, year of the Pig
  • 丁亥 【ていがい】 Fire Boar (24th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1947, 2007, 2067)
  • 己亥 【つちのとい】 Earth Boar (36th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1959, 2019, 2079)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hai4
Korean:
hae

Spanish

  • signo del cerdo
  • doceavo signo del zodíaco

Portuguese

French

  • signe de la 12ème branche terrestre
  • signe du Porc (zodiaque)
  • 21 à 23 h
2055 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
287 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1916 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
519 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2008 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2505 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1269 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1735 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1533 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
292 Morohashi
2012 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
89 New Nelson (John Haig)
1519 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1637 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2j4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
0080.2 Four corner code
1-16-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4ea5 Unicode hex code