Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
spoon
Parts:
north
Kun:
きた
On:
ホク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
153 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 北欧 【ホクオウ】 Northern Europe, Nordic countries, Scandinavia
  • 北緯 【ホクイ】 north latitude
  • 極北 【キョクホク】 extreme north, North Pole
  • 西北 【セイホク】 north-west

Kun reading compounds

  • 北 【きた】 north, the North, northern territories, North Korea, north wind
  • 北アイルランド 【きたアイルランド】 Northern Ireland
  • 西北 【せいほく】 north-west

Readings

Japanese names:
きら、 ほう、 ほっ、 ほつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei3
Korean:
bug, bae

Spanish

  • Norte
  • huir
  • perder

Portuguese

  • norte

French

  • nord
139 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
224 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
205 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
103 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
751 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
156 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
24 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
138 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
73 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
73 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
42 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
231 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
230 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
147 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
176 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
454 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2574 Morohashi
197 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
581 New Nelson (John Haig)
445 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
480 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
282 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
115 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1256 2001 Kanji
0a5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-2 SKIP code
1111.0 Four corner code
1-43-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5317 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
mausoleum, imperial tomb, mound, hill
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1746 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 陵 【ミササギ】 imperial mausoleum, Emperor's tomb, big hill
  • 陵墓 【リョウボ】 imperial tomb, imperial mausoleum
  • 帝陵 【テイリョウ】 imperial mausoleum
  • 皇陵 【コウリョウ】 imperial mausoleum

Kun reading compounds

  • 陵 【みささぎ】 imperial mausoleum, Emperor's tomb, big hill

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ling2
Korean:
reung

Spanish

  • mausoleo imperial
  • tumba imperial
  • cumbre

Portuguese

  • mausoleo
  • túmulo imperial

French

  • mausolée
  • tombe impériale
1908 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1912 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4998 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1646 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1874 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1310 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1844 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1996 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1886 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
742 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
660 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
400 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
497 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1532 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41704 Morohashi
544 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6454 New Nelson (John Haig)
1518 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1636 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1501 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3667 2001 Kanji
2d8.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
7424.7 Four corner code
1-46-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9675 Unicode hex code