Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
container, open mouth
Parts:
concave, hollow, sunken
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2206 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 凹 【オウ】 concave, hollow, sunken
  • 凹凸 【オウトツ】 unevenness, bumpiness, roughness, ruggedness, imbalance, inequality, unevenness, disparity
  • 肋凹 【ロクオウ】 costal fovea

Kun reading compounds

  • 窪む 【くぼむ】 to cave in, to become depressed, to sink
  • 凹む 【へこむ】 to be dented, to be indented, to yield, to give, to sink, to collapse, to cave in, to be beaten, to be overwhelmed, to yield, to give in, to give up, to be disheartened, to feel down, to feel depressed, to suffer a loss, to lose
  • 発達凸凹 【はったつでこぼこ】 developmental irregularities, developmental disorder, neurodiversity
  • 穴ぼこ 【あなぼこ】 hole, hollow, pothole (road, pavement, etc.)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ao1, wa1
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • hueco
  • cóncavo
  • hundido

Portuguese

  • côncavo
  • concavidade
  • afundado

French

  • concave
  • creux
  • dépression
1032 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1920 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
664 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1883 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1087 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1893 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2069 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1922 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
173 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4294 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2170 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2924 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
33 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1810 Morohashi
3482 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
444 New Nelson (John Haig)
33 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
33 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1039 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3675 2001 Kanji
0a5.14 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
4-6-1 SKIP code
4-4-1 SKIP code
7777.0 Four corner code
1-17-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51f9 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
door, house 戶 (户, 戸)
Parts:
place, extent
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
221 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 所 【ショ】 counter for places
  • 署員 【ショイン】 staff member, station employee, official
  • 高所 【コウショ】 high place, high ground, height, (high) altitude, elevation, broad (point of) view
  • 随所 【ズイショ】 everywhere, all over the place, here and there, at every turn

Kun reading compounds

  • 所 【ところ】 place, spot, scene, site, address, district, area, locality, one's house, point, aspect, side, facet, passage (in text), part, space, room, thing, matter, whereupon, as a result, about to, on the verge of, was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing, approximately, around, about
  • 所が 【ところが】 even so, however, still, whereupon, even though, nevertheless, on the contrary, as a matter of fact, despite
  • 一所 【いっしょ】 one place, the same place, one person, together
  • 痛いところ 【いたいところ】 one's weak point, one's sore spot, raw nerve
  • 所か 【どころか】 far from, anything but, not at all ... but rather ..., not ..., on the contrary, ..., instead of, rather than, let alone, to say nothing of, not to mention, much less, not only ... (but also ...)
  • 所じゃない 【どころじゃない】 not the time for, not the place for, far from, anything but, ... is out of the question, ... isn't the word for it
  • 大所 【おおどころ】 wealthy family, important person, bigwig
  • 居所 【いどころ】 whereabouts, address, place of temporary residence
  • 所 【ところ】 place, spot, scene, site, address, district, area, locality, one's house, point, aspect, side, facet, passage (in text), part, space, room, thing, matter, whereupon, as a result, about to, on the verge of, was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing, approximately, around, about
  • 所が 【ところが】 even so, however, still, whereupon, even though, nevertheless, on the contrary, as a matter of fact, despite
  • 早いとこ 【はやいとこ】 promptly, quickly
  • 僕んとこ 【ぼくんとこ】 at my place

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
suo3
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • lugar

Portuguese

  • Lugar

French

  • lieu
246 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
328 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
312 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
107 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1821 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
137 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
177 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
600 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
153 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
153 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
149 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
843 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1056 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
568 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
752 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1137 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11715X Morohashi
851 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2054 New Nelson (John Haig)
1127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1208 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
129 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
305 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3054 2001 Kanji
4m4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
3222.1 Four corner code
7222.1 Four corner code
1-29-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6240 Unicode hex code