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

10 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
paper
Kun:
かみ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
559 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 紙 【シ】 newspaper
  • 紙上 【シジョウ】 on paper, in the newspapers, in a letter
  • 原稿用紙 【ゲンコウヨウシ】 Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character), manuscript paper
  • 製紙 【セイシ】 papermaking, paper manufacture

Kun reading compounds

  • 紙 【かみ】 paper
  • 紙芝居 【かみしばい】 kamishibai, storytelling with pictures, form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
  • インディア紙 【インディアかみ】 India paper
  • 頸上 【くびかみ】 neckband, round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhi3
Korean:
ji

Spanish

  • papel
  • periódico

Portuguese

  • Papel

French

  • papier
85 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
148 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
132 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
501 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3510 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
362 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
236 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1953 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
180 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
180 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
243 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1517 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1654 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
879 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1197 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1846 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27293 Morohashi
1302 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4455 New Nelson (John Haig)
1829 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1971 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
456 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
194 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2756 2001 Kanji
6a4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
2294.0 Four corner code
1-27-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d19 Unicode hex code