Jisho

×

6 strokes
Radical:
legs
Parts:
Variants:
ray, light
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
527 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 光学 【コウガク】 optics
  • 光栄 【コウエイ】 honour, honor, glory, privilege
  • 脚光 【キャッコウ】 footlight, limelight
  • 発光 【ハッコウ】 emission (of light), radiation (of light), luminescence

Kun reading compounds

  • 光る 【ひかる】 to shine, to glitter, to be bright
  • 光る棒 【ひかるぼう】 glowstick, neon light stick
  • 光 【ひかり】 light, illumination, ray, beam, gleam, glow, happiness, hope, influence, power, vision, eyesight, optical fiber, optical fibre
  • 光り輝く 【ひかりかがやく】 to shine, to glitter
  • 越光 【こしひかり】 Koshihikari (variety of rice)
  • 柔らかな光 【やわらかなひかり】 soft light

Readings

Japanese names:
あき、 あきら、 こお、 てる、 ひこ、 み、 みつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guang1
Korean:
gwang

Spanish

  • rayo
  • luz
  • paisaje
  • honor
  • brillar
  • brillo

Portuguese

  • raio
  • luz

French

  • rayon
  • lumière
72 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
129 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
116 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
417 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1358 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
217 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
123 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
281 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
138 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
138 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
464 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
143 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3043 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1550 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2121 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
120 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1350 Morohashi
2391 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
349 New Nelson (John Haig)
119 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
125 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
345 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
121 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1057 2001 Kanji
3n3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-2 SKIP code
2-3-3 SKIP code
9021.1 Four corner code
1-24-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5149 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
leak, escape, time
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1298 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 漏洩 【ロウエイ】 leak (of secrets, information, etc.), disclosure, divulging, leak (of gas, liquid, etc.), leakage, escape (of gas), coming through (of light)
  • 漏出 【ロウシュツ】 leaking out, leakage, leak
  • 遺漏 【イロウ】 omission
  • 早漏 【ソウロウ】 premature ejaculation

Kun reading compounds

  • 漏る 【もる】 to leak, to run out
  • 漏れる 【もれる】 to leak out, to escape, to come through, to shine through, to filter out, to find expression, to give vent, to leak out, to be divulged, to be disclosed, to be omitted, to be left out, to be excluded, to be not included
  • 漏らす 【もらす】 to let leak, to let out (e.g. light), to let out (a secret), to leak (information), to divulge, to disclose, to let slip, to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction), to vent, to express, to reveal (e.g. one's true intentions), to let out (a sigh, etc.), to wet one's pants, to omit, to leave out, to fail to do, to miss, to omit (by mistake), to forget to do

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lou4
Korean:
ru

Spanish

  • fuga
  • escape
  • gotera
  • gotear
  • escaparse
  • filtrarse
  • rezumar

Portuguese

  • vazamento
  • escapar
  • tempo

French

  • fuite (eau, toit)
  • s'échapper (gaz)
  • temps
1940 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1809 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2682 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1599 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1495 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1806 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1945 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1502 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1247 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
860 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
495 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
635 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1077 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18120 Morohashi
701 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3307 New Nelson (John Haig)
1068 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1149 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1716 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
353 2001 Kanji
3a11.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
3712.7 Four corner code
1-47-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f0f Unicode hex code