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

Speed

Stroke order

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

9 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
star, spot, dot, mark
Kun:
ほし-ぼし
On:
セイショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
844 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 星 【セイ】 Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions), Singapore
  • 星座 【セイザ】 constellation, astrological sign, star sign, zodiac sign
  • 新星 【シンセイ】 nova, new face, new star
  • 小惑星 【ショウワクセイ】 asteroid
  • 客星 【カクセイ】 celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)
  • 七星 【シチセイ】 the Big Dipper (asterism), the Plough, the Plow

Kun reading compounds

  • 星 【ほし】 star (usu. excluding the Sun), planet (usu. excluding Earth), heavenly body, star (glyph, symbol, shape), asterisk, star (actor, player, etc.), dot, spot, fleck, bullseye, perp, perpetrator, culprit, offender, suspect, one's star (that determines one's fate), one's fortune, point, score, star point (intersection marked with a dot), hoshi, (pyrotechnic) star
  • 星空 【ほしぞら】 starry sky
  • 四三の星 【しそうのほし】 the Big Dipper (asterism), the Plough, the Plow
  • 希望の星 【きぼうのほし】 ray of light, ray of hope, promising talent

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xing1
Korean:
seong

Spanish

  • estrella
  • punto pequeño
  • resultado de un juego

Portuguese

  • estrela
  • ponto
  • marca

French

  • étoile
  • point
  • marque
264 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
171 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
154 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
877 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2121 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
838 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
599 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
946 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
730 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
743 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
463 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
973 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3089 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1577 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2156 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1570 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13837 Morohashi
2435 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2452 New Nelson (John Haig)
1556 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1676 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
181 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3872 2001 Kanji
4c5.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-5 SKIP code
6010.4 Four corner code
1-32-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
661f Unicode hex code