Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
call, call out to, invite
Kun:
よ.ぶ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
498 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 呼吸 【コキュウ】 breathing, respiration, knack, trick, secret (of doing something), harmony, balance, synchronization, accord, short interval, short pause
  • 呼応 【コオウ】 hailing each other, acting in concert, responding (to), sympathizing (with), agreement, concord
  • 連呼 【レンコ】 calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name), pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
  • 点呼 【テンコ】 roll-call, muster

Kun reading compounds

  • 呼ぶ 【よぶ】 to call out (to), to call, to invoke, to summon (a doctor, etc.), to invite, to designate, to name, to brand, to garner (support, etc.), to gather, to take as one's wife
  • 呼子鳥 【よぶこどり】 calling bird (esp. a cuckoo)

Readings

Japanese names:
よぶ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu1
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • llamar
  • aspirar

Portuguese

  • chamada
  • chamar para
  • convidar

French

  • appeler
  • inviter
867 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
856 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
640 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
914 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1000 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
410 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
571 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1254 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1325 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
197 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
301 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
324 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
205 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
246 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1497 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3471 Morohashi
273 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
769 New Nelson (John Haig)
1485 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1597 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
862 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3747 2001 Kanji
3d5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
6204.9 Four corner code
1-24-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
547c Unicode hex code

14 strokes (also 15)
Radical:
tree
Parts:
water pipe, gutter, downspout, conduit
Kun:
とい
On:
トウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1814 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 樋 【とい】 trough, gutter, water pipe, flume, chute, coulisse (of a sword blade)
  • 樋川 【ひがわ】 (water) spring
  • 木樋 【もくひ】 wooden water pipe, wooden flume
  • 筧 【かけひ】 open water pipe, conduit
  • 樋 【とい】 trough, gutter, water pipe, flume, chute, coulisse (of a sword blade)
  • 鎖樋 【くさりとい】 rain chain (hanging from a gutter and functioning as downspout, often made of ornamental cups)

Readings

Japanese names:
て、 と、 とよ、 とわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tong1
Korean:
tong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2338 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2299 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1353 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
982 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15415X Morohashi
2757 New Nelson (John Haig)
2520 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2580 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a10.28 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
1-4-7 SKIP code
4793.2 Four corner code
1-40-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6a0b Unicode hex code