Jisho

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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

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  • 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

15 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
heat, temperature, fever, mania, passion
Kun:
あつ.い
On:
ネツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
700 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 熱 【ネツ】 heat, fever, temperature, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, mania, craze, rage
  • 熱意 【ネツイ】 zeal, enthusiasm, ardor, ardour
  • 発熱 【ハツネツ】 generation of heat, (attack of) fever, pyrexia
  • 解熱 【ゲネツ】 lowering a fever, alleviation of fever

Kun reading compounds

  • 熱い 【あつい】 hot (to the touch), passionate (feelings, etc.), ardent, hot (e.g. gaze), hot (e.g. temper), zealous, enthusiastic, fired up, intense, severe, extreme, hot (topic), of interest
  • 熱い暗黒物質 【あついあんこくぶっしつ】 hot dark matter

Readings

Japanese names:
あた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
re4
Korean:
yeol

Spanish

  • calor
  • fiebre
  • pasión
  • caliente

Portuguese

  • calor
  • temperatura
  • febre
  • mania
  • paixão

French

  • chaleur
  • fièvre
  • température
  • manie
  • passion
490 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
589 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
560 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
629 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2797 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
300 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
720 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2408 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
645 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
655 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
866 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1283 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3555 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1834 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2495 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1530 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19360 Morohashi
2866 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3473 New Nelson (John Haig)
1516 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1634 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
627 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1440 2001 Kanji
4d11.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-11-4 SKIP code
4433.1 Four corner code
4533.1 Four corner code
1-39-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
71b1 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
dipper
Parts:
Big Dipper, ten sho (vol), sake dipper, dots and cross radical (no. 68)
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1885 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 斗 【ト】 to, traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres, square bearing block (at the top of a pillar), Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
  • 斗 【トマス】 kanji radical 68 at right
  • 星斗 【セイト】 star
  • 泰斗 【タイト】 great authority, eminent person, luminary
  • 闘争 【トウソウ】 fight, battle, combat, conflict, struggle (for rights, higher wages, etc.), strife, (labor) dispute, strike
  • 闘魂 【トウコン】 fighting spirit
  • 擬闘 【ギトウ】 stage combat, staged fighting, fight choreography

Readings

Japanese names:
ます
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dou3, dou4
Korean:
du

Spanish

  • medida de capacidad
  • cazo de sake

Portuguese

  • concha grande
  • concha p/ sake
  • medida de volume

French

  • Grande Ourse
  • tonnelet de saké
  • to (18,039 litres)
  • radical points et croix (no. 68)
1633 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1782 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2073 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1815 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1395 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
71 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1899 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2075 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1920 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
950 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3671 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1874 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2554 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1185 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13489 Morohashi
2953 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2373 New Nelson (John Haig)
1177 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1261 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1033 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1255 2001 Kanji
0a4.17 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
4-4-3 SKIP code
3400.0 Four corner code
1-37-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6597 Unicode hex code