Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:
drama, play
On:
ゲキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
662 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 劇 【ゲキ】 drama, play, powerful drug
  • 劇画 【ゲキガ】 comic strip with dramatic story
  • 新劇 【シンゲキ】 shingeki, new drama (movement), form of Japanese theater developed towards the end of the Meiji period inspired by modern Western theater
  • 京劇 【キョウゲキ】 classical Chinese opera

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ju4
Korean:
geug

Spanish

  • drama
  • obra
  • teatro
  • violento
  • intenso

Portuguese

  • drama
  • jogo

French

  • théâtre
  • pièce (théâtre)
858 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
848 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
458 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
247 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1078 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
365 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
797 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
811 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1140 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
206 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2399 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1221 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1681 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2016 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2218 Morohashi
1904 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
517 New Nelson (John Haig)
1997 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2152 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
982 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1243 2001 Kanji
2f13.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-13-2 SKIP code
2220.0 Four corner code
1-23-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5287 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
discuss, talk
On:
ダン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
272 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 談 【ダン】 talk, story, conversation
  • 談合 【ダンゴウ】 bid rigging, collusion (on contract bidding), (illegal) price-fixing agreement, consultation, discussion, conference
  • 示談 【ジダン】 settlement out of court, private settlement
  • 講談 【コウダン】 storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery, story

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tan2
Korean:
dam

Spanish

  • conversar
  • hablar

Portuguese

  • discutir
  • conversar

French

  • discuter
  • parler
467 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
363 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
543 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
303 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4388 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
378 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
907 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2325 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
593 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
603 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
390 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1698 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1975 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1053 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1419 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
356 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35633 Morohashi
1569 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5643 New Nelson (John Haig)
350 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
374 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
394 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
433 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3062 2001 Kanji
7a8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-8 SKIP code
0968.9 Four corner code
1-35-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ac7 Unicode hex code