Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
open country
Parts:
Variants:
circle, yen, round
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
69 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 円 【エン】 yen (Japanese monetary unit), circle
  • 円滑 【エンカツ】 smooth, undisturbed, uninterrupted, harmonious
  • 楕円 【ダエン】 ellipse
  • 同心円 【ドウシンエン】 concentric circles

Kun reading compounds

  • 丸い 【まるい】 round, circular, spherical, curved, smooth, harmonious, calm, peaceful, amiable, amicable
  • 丸 【まる】 circle, entirety, whole, full, complete, money, dough, moola, enclosure inside a castle's walls, soft-shelled turtle, suffix for ship names, suffix for names of people (esp. infants), suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc., suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
  • 丸い 【まるい】 round, circular, spherical, curved, smooth, harmonious, calm, peaceful, amiable, amicable
  • 黒円 【くろまる】 black spot, black dot, bull's-eye, middle dot, interpunct
  • 円居 【まどい】 sitting in a circle, pleasant gathering
  • 円か 【まどか】 round, tranquil, contentedly at ease
  • 円か 【まどか】 round, tranquil, contentedly at ease
  • 円やか 【まろやか】 round, circular, spherical, mellow (flavour, voice, etc.), mild, smooth

Readings

Japanese names:
つぶら、 のぶ、 まどか、 みつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • circular
  • redondo
  • yen

Portuguese

  • círculo
  • iene
  • redondo

French

  • cercle
  • yen
  • rond
48 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
50 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
4 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
617 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
159 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
20 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
78 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.12 Japanese for Busy People
13 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
13 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
14 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
159 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3673 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1875 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2555 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
185 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1513 Morohashi
2955 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
385 New Nelson (John Haig)
1811 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1952 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
260 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
25 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3645 2001 Kanji
2r2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
7722.0 Four corner code
1-17-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5186 Unicode hex code

24 strokes (also 23)
Radical:
fish
Parts:
scales (fish)
Kun:
うろここけこけら
On:
リン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2494 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鱗芽 【リンガ】 bulbil, cormel, brood bud
  • 鱗形 【ウロコガタ】 triangular pattern, scalelike pattern, imbricate pattern, imbrication, triangle emblem
  • 介鱗 【カイリン】 fish and shellfish
  • 細鱗 【サイリン】 small (fish) scale, small fish

Kun reading compounds

  • 鱗 【うろこ】 scale (of fish, snake, etc.), serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
  • 鱗形 【うろこがた】 triangular pattern, scalelike pattern, imbricate pattern, imbrication, triangle emblem
  • 三つ鱗 【みつうろこ】 mitsuuroko emblem (three triangles in a triangular pattern; Hōjō clan symbol)
  • 目からウロコ 【めからうろこ】 seeing the light, being awakened to the truth, having the scales fall from one's eyes
  • 鱗 【うろこ】 scale (of fish, snake, etc.), serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
  • 鱗板 【こけらいた】 thin shingles
  • 鱗 【うろこ】 scale (of fish, snake, etc.), serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
  • 鱗板 【こけらいた】 thin shingles

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lin2
Korean:
rin

Spanish

  • escamas (peces)

Portuguese

French

5334 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2375 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1668 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
46502 Morohashi
6923 New Nelson (John Haig)
2054 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2211 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a13.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-13 SKIP code
1-11-12 SKIP code
2935.9 Four corner code
1-46-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9c57 Unicode hex code