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

Speed

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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

7 strokes
Radical:
horn
Parts:
angle, corner, square, horn, antlers
Kun:
かどつの
On:
カク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
805 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 角 【カク】 angle, square, cube, bishop, third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale), Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions), jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
  • 角界 【カクカイ】 the world of sumo
  • 内角 【ナイカク】 interior angle, internal angle, inside corner
  • 外角 【ガイカク】 external angle, exterior angle, outside corner

Kun reading compounds

  • 角 【かど】 corner, edge, (street) corner, turning, rough edges (of one's character, words, etc.), abrasiveness, harshness, sharpness
  • 角地 【かどち】 corner lot
  • 四つ角 【よつかど】 four corners, crossroads, intersecting street, street corner
  • 塩角 【しおかど】 sharp taste of (refined) salt
  • 角 【つの】 horn, antler, antenna, feeler, tentacle (e.g. of a snail), horn-like projection (e.g. peaks of whipped cream)
  • 角隠し 【つのかくし】 bride's head-dress
  • 枝角 【えだづの】 antler
  • 豊穣の角 【ほうじょうのつの】 cornucopia, horn of plenty

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 す、 すみ、 ずみ、 ふさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao3, jia3, jue2
Korean:
gag

Spanish

  • ángulo
  • esquina
  • cuadrado
  • cuerno

Portuguese

  • ângulo
  • canto
  • chifre

French

  • angle
  • coin
  • carré
  • corne
  • bois (andouillers)
173 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
97 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
243 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
714 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4301 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
273 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
891 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
547 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
473 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
481 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
716 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1650 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2541 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1293 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1761 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1829 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35003 Morohashi
2047 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5543 New Nelson (John Haig)
1812 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1953 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
138 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2545 2001 Kanji
2n5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-5 SKIP code
3-4-3 SKIP code
2722.7 Four corner code
1-19-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
89d2 Unicode hex code