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凄

10 strokes
Radical:
ice 冫
Parts:
冫 十 女 ヨ
Variants:
淒
uncanny, weird, threatening, horrible
Kun:
さむ.い、 すご.い、 すさ.まじい
On:
セイ、 サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2313 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 凄艶 【セイエン】 weirdly beautiful
  • 凄惨 【セイサン】 ghastly, gruesome, appalling, lurid

Kun reading compounds

  • 凄い 【すごい】 terrible, dreadful, amazing (e.g. of strength), great (e.g. of skills), wonderful, terrific, to a great extent, vast (in numbers), awfully, very, immensely
  • 凄い事になる 【すごいことになる】 to go crazy (esp. of a situation or thing), to get out of hand, to end up in an extreme state
  • 凄まじい 【すさまじい】 terrible, dreadful, awful, horrible, ghastly, tremendous, terrific, enormous, prodigious, stupendous, amazing, appalling, shocking, staggering, absurd

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi1
Korean:
cheo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

647 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
683 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
145 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
110 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1657 Morohashi
425 New Nelson (John Haig)
2133 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2036 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2b8.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-8 SKIP code
3514.4 Four corner code
1-32-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51c4 Unicode hex code

艶

19 strokes
Radical:
colour, prettiness 色
Parts:
｜ 并 勹 口 日 色 豆
Variants:
艷 豓 豔
glossy, luster, glaze, polish, charm, colorful, captivating
Kun:
つや、 なま.めかしい、 あで.やか、 つや.めく、 なま.めく
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2207 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 艶 【エン】 charming, fascinating, voluptuous
  • 演歌 【エンカ】 enka, traditional-style Japanese popular ballad, troubadour
  • 妖艶 【ヨウエン】 fascinating, voluptuous, bewitching, captivating
  • 凄艶 【セイエン】 weirdly beautiful

Kun reading compounds

  • 艶 【つや】 gloss, luster, lustre, shine, sheen, polish, mellowness (of a voice), youthfulness (e.g. of skin), interest, appeal, charm, color, colour, feeling, romance, love, sexiness
  • 艶々 【つやつや】 glossy, bright, slick
  • 艶々 【つやつや】 glossy, bright, slick
  • 艶かしい 【なまめかしい】 charming, captivating, bewitching, seductive, coquettish
  • 艶やか 【あでやか】 glamorous, charming, fascinatingly elegant, lovely, gorgeous, beguiling, bewitching
  • 艶めく 【つやめく】 (for an object) to be shiny, to be glossy, (for a woman) to be alluring, to look sexy
  • 艶めく 【なまめく】 to brim over with feminine charm, to look captivating (of a woman), to be sexy, to be seductive, to be enticing, to look young and fresh, to be elegant, to look refined, to have a calm and composed appearance

Readings

Japanese names:
もろ、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan4
Korean:
yeom

Spanish

  • encantador
  • cautivador
  • lustroso
  • vidriado
  • pulido

Portuguese

French

  • luisant
  • brillant
  • lustré
  • charmant
  • poli
  • verni
  • coloré
  • captivant
3890 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1914 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2833 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2209 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
990 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2403 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1222 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1683 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1771 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30632 Morohashi
1908 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4957 New Nelson (John Haig)
1755 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1892 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d16.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-13-6 SKIP code
5711.7 Four corner code
1-17-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8276 Unicode hex code