1859 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1915 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
816 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1829 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1116 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
68 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1341 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1424 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1721 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
257 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3665 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1870 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2550 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1427 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
2893 | Morohashi |
2947 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
646 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1415 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1519 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1026 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
- On:
- ヤク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2123 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 厄 【ヤク】 misfortune, bad luck, evil, disaster, unlucky year, critical year, year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky
- 厄年 【ヤクドシ】 unlucky year, critical year, year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō), bad year, annus horribilis
- 災厄 【サイヤク】 calamity, disaster, accident
- 大厄 【タイヤク】 calamity, disaster, great misfortune, grand climacteric
Readings
- Korean:
- aeg
Spanish
- desgracia
- mala suerte
- desastre
- calamidad
- abreviatura de año malo
Portuguese
- infeliz
- desgraça
- sorte ruim
- desaster
French
- malchance
- infortune
- désastre
3356 | 2001 Kanji |
2p2.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-2-2 | SKIP code |
7121.2 | Four corner code |
1-44-81 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5384 | Unicode hex code |
jammed in, shellfish, mediate, concern oneself with
- On:
- カイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
617 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 貝 【カイ】 shellfish, seashell, shell
- 介護 【カイゴ】 nursing, care, caregiving, caring
- 魚介 【ギョカイ】 marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish
- 無媒介 【ムバイカイ】 immediacy
Readings
- Japanese names:
- すけ、 ゆき
- Korean:
- gae
Spanish
- intervención
- ayuda
- mediación
- cosa aburrida
Portuguese
- comprimir em
- marisco
- meio
- interessa a si próprio com
French
- immixtion
- coquillage
- intervention
- intermédiaire
- s'occuper de
1059 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
666 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
347 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
941 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
299 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
66 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
453 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
460 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
695 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
44 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2463 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1245 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1711 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
256 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
359 | Morohashi |
1967 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
108 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
250 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
265 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1020 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2854 | 2001 Kanji |
2a2.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-2-2 | SKIP code |
8022.0 | Four corner code |
1-18-80 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
4ecb | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
- 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
- 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
- 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency
Kun reading compounds
- 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
- 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
- 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
- いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
- 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ろ
- Korean:
- sa
Spanish
- cosa
- hecho
- asunto
- acción
Portuguese
- matéria
- coisa
- fato
- negócios
- razão
- possivelmente
French
- fait
- chose
- matière
- affaire
- raison
- peut-être
230 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
309 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
293 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
32 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
272 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
73 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
108 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
768 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.7 | Japanese for Busy People |
80 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
80 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
237 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
30 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4384 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2220 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2986 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1164 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
241 | Morohashi |
3567 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
71 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1156 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1240 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
10 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
300 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1547 | 2001 Kanji |
0a8.15 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-8-3 | SKIP code |
5000.7 | Four corner code |
1-27-86 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
4e8b | Unicode hex code |