Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
广
T'ang, China, foreign
Kun:
から
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1727 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 唐 【トウ】 Tang dynasty (of China; 618-907), T'ang dynasty, China, foreign country
  • 唐土 【モロコシ】 China, Chinese
  • 頽唐 【タイトウ】 decadence, decline
  • 後唐 【コウトウ】 Later Tang dynasty (of China; 923-937), Later T'ang dynasty

Kun reading compounds

  • 唐 【から】 China (sometimes also used in ref. to Korea or other foreign countries)
  • 空手 【からて】 karate, being empty-handed, having nothing in one's hands

Readings

Japanese names:
かろ、 たん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tang2
Korean:
dang

Spanish

  • Tang (antigua dinastía china)
  • China

Portuguese

  • T'ang
  • China

French

  • T'ang
  • Chine
1645 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1668 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1516 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1856 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1135 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1246 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1697 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1813 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1727 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
292 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3867 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1988 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2685 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1165 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3709P Morohashi
3115 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
812 New Nelson (John Haig)
1157 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1241 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1318 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
577 2001 Kanji
3q7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
0026.7 Four corner code
1-37-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5510 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
country
Kun:
くに
On:
コク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 国益 【コクエキ】 national interest
  • 国営 【コクエイ】 government management, state management
  • 最恵国 【サイケイコク】 most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN
  • 異国 【イコク】 foreign country

Kun reading compounds

  • 国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth
  • 国人 【こくじん】 indigenous person, inhabitant of a country, local, native, local lords and samurai, daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
  • お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
  • 現国 【うつしくに】 world of mankind, this world

Readings

Japanese names:
くな、 こ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2
Korean:
gug

Spanish

  • país

Portuguese

  • País
  • terra
  • nação

French

  • pays
79 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
136 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
123 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
8 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1037 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
111 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
36 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
745 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
40 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
40 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
151 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
344 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3831 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2659 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
588 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4752 Morohashi
3087 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
950 New Nelson (John Haig)
581 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
624 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
158 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3172 2001 Kanji
3s5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
6010.3 Four corner code
1-25-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56fd Unicode hex code