Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
cliff
Parts:
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

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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

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
e4
Korean:
aeg

Spanish

  • desgracia
  • mala suerte
  • desastre
  • calamidad
  • abreviatura de año malo

Portuguese

  • infeliz
  • desgraça
  • sorte ruim
  • desaster

French

  • malchance
  • infortune
  • désastre
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)
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

4 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
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

Speed

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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
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jie4
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

8 strokes
Radical:
cow 牛 (牜)
Parts:
thing, object, matter
Kun:
ものもの-
On:
ブツモツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
215 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 物 【ブツ】 stock, products, goods (esp. stolen), loot, spoils, stuff
  • 物議 【ブツギ】 public discussion, public criticism, controversy
  • 異物 【イブツ】 foreign substance, foreign body, foreign contamination, foreign material, strange object, unusual object, dead body, corpse, remains
  • 遺物 【イブツ】 relic, remains, memento
  • 財物 【ザイブツ】 property
  • 幣物 【ヘイモツ】 Shinto offerings, present to a guest

Kun reading compounds

  • 物 【もの】 thing, object, article, stuff, substance, one's things, possessions, property, belongings, things, something, anything, everything, nothing, quality, reason, the way of things, used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc., used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense), used to indicate a general tendency, used to indicate something that should happen, item classified as ..., item related to ..., work in the genre of ..., cause of ..., cause for ..., somehow, somewhat, for some reason, really, truly
  • 物言い 【ものいい】 manner of speaking, verbal argument, objection, protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee), rumor, rumour
  • 先物 【さきもの】 futures, futures contract
  • 拾い物 【ひろいもの】 found article, thing picked up (e.g. in the street), (lucky) find, piece of good luck, windfall, bargain

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu4
Korean:
mul

Spanish

  • cosa
  • objeto
  • materia

Portuguese

  • coisa
  • objeto
  • matéria

French

  • objet
  • chose
  • matière
313 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
410 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
387 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
126 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2857 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
74 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
214 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
611 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.13 Japanese for Busy People
79 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
79 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
321 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1290 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1084 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
587 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
777 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1059 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19959 Morohashi
874 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3538 New Nelson (John Haig)
1050 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1129 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
95 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
313 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2451 2001 Kanji
4g4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
2752.0 Four corner code
1-42-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7269 Unicode hex code