Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:
give, do something for, kingdom of Wu
Kun:
く.れるくれ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1729 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 呉 【ゴ】 Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze), Wu (kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era; 902-937 CE), Southern Wu, Wu (kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era; 222-280 CE), Eastern Wu, Sun Wu, Wu (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn era; 11th century-473 BCE)
  • 豆汁 【ゴ】 go, soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk)
  • 藍子 【アイゴ】 mottled spinefoot (Siganus fuscescens, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish), dusky rabbitfish, sandy spinefoot

Kun reading compounds

  • 呉れる 【くれる】 to give, to let (one) have, to give, to do for one, to take the trouble to do, to do to someone's disadvantage
  • 呉れる 【くれる】 to give, to let (one) have, to give, to do for one, to take the trouble to do, to do to someone's disadvantage
  • 呉れ呉れも 【くれぐれも】 sincerely, earnestly, wholeheartedly, repeatedly, over and over, again and again
  • 何くれ 【なにくれ】 in various ways

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu2
Korean:
o, u

Spanish

  • dar
  • recibir
  • antigua provincia de China

Portuguese

  • fazer alguma coisa para

French

  • tu me donnes
  • faire pour moi
1237 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1422 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
583 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1002 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1130 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
735 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1436 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1526 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1929 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
322 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3156 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1620 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2206 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1915 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3365P Morohashi
2549 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
741 New Nelson (John Haig)
1897 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2046 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1105 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1261 2001 Kanji
2o5.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-2 SKIP code
3-5-3 SKIP code
3-4-3 SKIP code
2-6-2 SKIP code
2680.1 Four corner code
1-24-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5449 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
mother, do not 毋 (母, ⺟)
Parts:
mother
Kun:
はは
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
570 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 母国 【ボコク】 one's home country, one's homeland
  • 母校 【ボコウ】 alma mater
  • 養父母 【ヨウフボ】 adoptive parents
  • 空母 【クウボ】 aircraft carrier

Kun reading compounds

  • 母 【はは】 mother
  • 母親 【ははおや】 mother
  • 必要は発明の母 【ひつようははつめいのはは】 necessity is the mother of invention
  • 失敗は成功の母 【しっぱいはせいこうのはは】 failure is the mother of success
  • 母屋 【もや】 purlin (structural beam in a roof), purline, main building (of a manor), central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture)
  • 母屋桁 【もやげた】 purlin (structural beam in a roof), purline
  • 雲母 【うんも】 mica, isinglass
  • 乳母 【うば】 wet nurse, nursing mother

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu3
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • madre
  • base
  • cimientos

Portuguese

  • mãe
  • materno

French

  • maman
  • mère
137 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
222 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
203 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
554 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2466 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
89 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
65 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
326 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
112 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
112 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
74 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1143 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4287 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2165 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2917 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
102 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16723 Morohashi
3475 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3005 New Nelson (John Haig)
101 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
105 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
317 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
114 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3647 2001 Kanji
0a5.36 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
7750.0 Four corner code
1-42-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bcd Unicode hex code