Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
ice
Parts:
endure, keep (rain)out, stave off, tide over, defy, slight, surpass
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2423 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 凌雲 【リョウウン】 skyscraping, very high, above the clouds, above this mortal world
  • 凌駕 【リョウガ】 excelling, surpassing, outdoing

Kun reading compounds

  • 凌ぐ 【しのぐ】 to endure, to keep out (e.g. rain), to stave off (e.g. starvation), to pull through, to get over, to survive, to surpass, to outdo, to excel, to eclipse, to defy, to slight

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ling2
Korean:
reung

Spanish

  • aguantar
  • soportar
  • resistir
  • rechazar
  • oponerse
  • desafiar

Portuguese

French

646 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1022 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2025 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
144 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
96 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
109 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1669 Morohashi
128 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
424 New Nelson (John Haig)
2136 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2263 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2b8.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-8 SKIP code
3414.7 Four corner code
1-46-31 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51cc Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
cloud
Kun:
くも-ぐも
On:
ウン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
1256 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 雲散霧消 【ウンサンムショウ】 vanishing like mist
  • 雲海 【ウンカイ】 sea of clouds
  • 青雲 【セイウン】 blue sky, erudition, detachment from the world, high rank
  • 星雲 【セイウン】 nebula, galaxy

Kun reading compounds

  • 雲 【くも】 cloud
  • 雲行き 【くもゆき】 weather, look of the sky, situation, turn of affairs, signs, way the wind is blowing
  • 白雲 【しらくも】 white clouds
  • 八重雲 【やえぐも】 layers of clouds

Readings

Japanese names:
き、 ずも、 のめ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yun2
Korean:
un

Spanish

  • nube

Portuguese

  • nuvem

French

  • nuage
47 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
83 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
78 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1124 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5046 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
478 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
997 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2027 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
636 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
646 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
844 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1860 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3447 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1774 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2415 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
430 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42235 Morohashi
2773 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6522 New Nelson (John Haig)
423 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
452 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
213 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3171 2001 Kanji
8d4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
1073.1 Four corner code
1-17-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96f2 Unicode hex code