Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
container, open mouth
Parts:
villain, evil, bad luck, disaster
On:
キョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1673 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 凶 【キョウ】 bad luck, bad fortune, evil, wickedness
  • 凶悪 【キョウアク】 atrocious, heinous, fiendish, brutal, vicious
  • 元凶 【ゲンキョウ】 ringleader, main culprit, main cause, source
  • 大凶 【ダイキョウ】 terrible luck, very bad luck

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiong1
Korean:
hyung

Spanish

  • mal
  • maldad
  • desastre
  • calamidad

Portuguese

  • vilão
  • mau
  • sorte ruim
  • desastre

French

  • vaurien
  • mauvais
  • malchance
  • désastre
1159 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1725 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
663 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1337 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1085 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
173 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1280 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1354 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1812 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
172 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3679 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1877 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2557 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1503 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1803 Morohashi
2961 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
442 New Nelson (John Haig)
1490 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1603 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1022 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1275 2001 Kanji
0a4.19 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
2277.0 Four corner code
1-22-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51f6 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
Variants:
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kun:
ことつか.うつか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
  • 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
  • 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
  • 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency

Kun reading compounds

  • 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
  • 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
  • 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cosa
  • hecho
  • asunto
  • acción

Portuguese

  • matéria
  • coisa
  • fato
  • negócios
  • razão
  • possivelmente

French

  • fait
  • chose
  • matière
  • affaire
  • raison
  • peut-être
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
309 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
293 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
272 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
73 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
108 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
768 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
80 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
30 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4384 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
241 Morohashi
3567 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 New Nelson (John Haig)
1156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
300 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1547 2001 Kanji
0a8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
5000.7 Four corner code
1-27-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e8b Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
legs
Parts:
portent, 10**12, trillion, sign, omen, symptoms
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1174 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 兆 【チョウ】 10^12, 1,000,000,000,000, trillion, sign, omen, indication, portent
  • 兆候 【チョウコウ】 sign, indication, omen, symptom
  • 吉兆 【キッチョウ】 lucky omen, good omen
  • 慶兆 【ケイチョウ】 sign of happiness, good omen

Kun reading compounds

  • 兆す 【きざす】 to show signs, to have symptoms, to give indications (of), to bud, to germinate, to sprout
  • 兆し 【きざし】 sign, indication, omen, symptom

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhao4
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • presagio
  • síntoma
  • billón
  • mostrar síntomas

Portuguese

  • portento
  • 10 elevado a 12
  • trilhão
  • signo
  • presságio
  • sintomas

French

  • augures
  • présage
  • signe
  • symptômes
  • 10**12
  • 1000 milliards
573 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
939 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1426 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
637 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1687 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
337 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
244 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1562 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1665 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1269 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
146 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
264 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
166 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
199 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
240 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1347 Morohashi
225 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
346 New Nelson (John Haig)
235 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
250 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
469 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1257 2001 Kanji
2b4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-3 SKIP code
3221.3 Four corner code
3211.3 Four corner code
1-35-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5146 Unicode hex code