Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
join, get together, unite, collective
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
966 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 併合 【ヘイゴウ】 merger, joining into one, amalgamation, melding, merging, annexation, absorption
  • 並行 【ヘイコウ】 going side-by-side, going abreast, running concurrently, occurring at the same time, keeping pace with

Kun reading compounds

  • 合わせる 【あわせる】 to match (rhythm, speed, etc.), to join together, to unite, to combine, to add up, to face, to be opposite (someone), to compare, to check with, to cause to meet (e.g. an unpleasant fate), to place together, to connect, to overlap, to mix, to combine, to put blade to blade, to fight

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing4
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • combinación
  • unión
  • amalgama
  • combinar
  • unir
  • amalgamar

Portuguese

  • unir
  • reúnir
  • coletivo

French

  • faire correspondre
  • joindre
  • unir
  • cependant
  • simultané
1774 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
961 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
425 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1079 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1045 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1162 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1218 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1250 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
92 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
92 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
60 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
64 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1039 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
561 Morohashi
83 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
190 New Nelson (John Haig)
1030 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1107 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1152 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2155 2001 Kanji
2a6.17 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-6 SKIP code
2824.1 Four corner code
1-42-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f75 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
read
Kun:
よ.む-よ.み
On:
ドクトクトウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du2, dou4
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