Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
make a deal, selling, dealing in, merchant
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
413 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 商 【ショウ】 quotient, business, merchant, dealer, second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale), Shang dynasty (of China; approx. 1600-1046 BCE), Yin dynasty
  • 商会 【ショウカイ】 firm, company
  • 年商 【ネンショウ】 yearly (annual) turnover
  • 画商 【ガショウ】 picture dealer, commercial art gallery

Kun reading compounds

  • 商う 【あきなう】 to trade in (commercial goods), to deal in, to sell

Readings

Japanese names:
あき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shang1
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • trato
  • negociación
  • vender
  • tratar con

Portuguese

  • Fazer um acordo
  • vender
  • comerciante

French

  • commerce
  • affaire
  • vente
  • distributeur
  • marchand
431 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
333 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
317 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
353 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
321 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
293 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
414 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1526 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
412 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
418 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
684 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
330 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2623 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1341 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1818 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
446 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3803 Morohashi
2116 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
832 New Nelson (John Haig)
439 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
471 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
375 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
375 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
449 2001 Kanji
2j9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-9 SKIP code
3-8-3 SKIP code
2-4-7 SKIP code
3-6-5 SKIP code
0022.7 Four corner code
1-30-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5546 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
sphere, circle, radius, range
Kun:
かこ.い
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1216 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 圏 【ケン】 sphere, circle, range, area, zone, bloc, category
  • 圏内 【ケンナイ】 inside (a region, area, etc.), within the range (of), within the sphere (of influence, etc.)
  • 成層圏 【セイソウケン】 stratosphere
  • 勢力圏 【セイリョクケン】 sphere of influence

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
quan1, juan1, juan4
Korean:
gweon

Spanish

  • esfera
  • círculo
  • radio
  • rango

Portuguese

  • esfera
  • círculo
  • raio
  • série

French

  • sphère
  • domaine
  • bloc
  • orbite
  • rayon
  • zone
1216 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1402 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1045 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1160 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1147 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
508 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
517 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1251 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
345 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3904 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2012 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2714 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1216 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4815P Morohashi
3148 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
960 New Nelson (John Haig)
1208 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1293 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1511 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1056 2001 Kanji
3s9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-9 SKIP code
6071.7 Four corner code
1-23-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
570f Unicode hex code