Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
hiding enclosure
Parts:
equal, head, counter for small animals, roll of cloth
Kun:
ひき
On:
ヒツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1384 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 匹偶 【ヒツグウ】 pair, couple (husband and wife), friend, comrade
  • 馬匹 【バヒツ】 horses

Kun reading compounds

  • 匹 【ひき】 counter for small animals, counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size), counter for horses, roll of cloth
  • 二匹 【にひき】 two small animals

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pi3, pi1
Korean:
pil, mog

Spanish

  • una persona
  • confrontar
  • equilibrar
  • contador de animales
  • contador de largo de telas

Portuguese

  • igual
  • cabeça
  • sufixo para contagem de para pequenos animais
  • rolo de pano

French

  • égal
  • tête
  • compteur de petits animaux
  • rouleau de tissu (= 2 tan = ~19m)
1736 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1595 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
756 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1120 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
379 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
187 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1500 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1599 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1203 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
234 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3680 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1878 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2558 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1711 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2673 Morohashi
2962 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
584 New Nelson (John Haig)
1695 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1830 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1025 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3475 2001 Kanji
2t2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
7171.1 Four corner code
1-41-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5339 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
husband, man
Kun:
おっとそれ
On:
フウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
335 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 夫妻 【フサイ】 husband and wife, married couple
  • 夫婦 【フウフ】 married couple, husband and wife, man and wife
  • 継夫 【ケイフ】 second husband
  • 炊夫 【スイフ】 male cook
  • 夫婦 【フウフ】 married couple, husband and wife, man and wife
  • 夫子 【フウシ】 teacher, wise man, sage, master, Confucius, the person concerned, you, he, she
  • 一工夫 【ヒトクフウ】 a bit of contrivance, some fiddling, a little ingenuity
  • 創意工夫 【ソウイクフウ】 ingenuity, inventiveness, creative originality
  • 夫人 【フジン】 wife, Mrs, madam, wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.), consort of the emperor
  • 賦役 【フエキ】 slave labour, slave labor, compulsory service, forced labour, forced labor, exacted service
  • 大夫 【ダイブ】 high steward, grand master
  • 右京大夫 【ウキョウノダイブ】 Ukyō no Daibu (title under the ritsuryō system), high steward

Kun reading compounds

  • 夫 【おっと】 husband
  • 夫選び 【おっとえらび】 choosing a husband
  • DV夫 【ディーブイおっと】 (physically) abusive husband, wife beater
  • 元夫 【もとおっと】 ex-husband, former husband
  • 其れ其れ 【それぞれ】 each, respectively

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 と、 ゆう、 よ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu1, fu2
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • marido
  • hombre
  • esposo

Portuguese

  • marido
  • homem

French

  • mari
  • homme
501 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
601 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
573 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
265 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
164 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
51 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
445 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
104 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
315 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
315 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
595 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
411 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4271 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2157 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2909 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
846 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5835 Morohashi
3460 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1136 New Nelson (John Haig)
838 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
901 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
220 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
445 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1463 2001 Kanji
0a4.31 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
5003.0 Four corner code
1-41-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
592b Unicode hex code