Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
quandary, become distressed, annoyed
Kun:
こま.る
On:
コン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
843 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 困惑 【コンワク】 bewilderment, perplexity, embarrassment, discomfiture, bafflement
  • 困難 【コンナン】 difficulty, hardship, trouble, distress, infeasibility, inability (to carry out)
  • 絶対貧困 【ゼッタイヒンコン】 absolute poverty
  • 絶対的貧困 【ゼッタイテキヒンコン】 absolute poverty

Kun reading compounds

  • 困る 【こまる】 to be troubled, to have difficulty, to be in a fix, to be at a loss, to be stumped, to be embarrassed, to be bothered, to be inconvenienced, to be annoyed, to be badly off, to be hard up, to be in straitened circumstances

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kun4
Korean:
gon

Spanish

  • dificultades
  • preocupaciones
  • sufrir
  • afligirse
  • hallarse en apuros

Portuguese

  • dúvida
  • torna-se angustiado
  • aborrecido
  • incerteza
  • dilema

French

  • embarras
  • affligé
  • ennuyé
878 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
868 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
860 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1033 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
969 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
422 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.9 Japanese for Busy People
558 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
567 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
254 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
341 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3808 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1950 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2644 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
586 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4717 Morohashi
3070 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
946 New Nelson (John Haig)
579 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
621 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
437 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
851 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1864 2001 Kanji
3s4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-4 SKIP code
6090.4 Four corner code
1-26-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56f0 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
kneel
Parts:
Variants:
instead, on the contrary, rather, step back, withdraw, retreat
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
959 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 焼却 【ショウキャク】 incineration, destroy by fire
  • 償却 【ショウキャク】 repayment, redemption, depreciation, amortization, amortisation

Kun reading compounds

  • 却って 【かえって】 on the contrary, rather, instead, all the more
  • 退ける 【しりぞける】 to refuse, to reject, to turn down, to dismiss, to repel, to repulse, to drive away, to beat off, to defeat, to make (someone) leave, to send away, to turn away, to force (someone) to leave their post, to oust, to remove, to expel

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
que4
Korean:
gag

Spanish

  • retirarse
  • echarse atrás
  • rechazar

Portuguese

  • ao invés
  • ao contrário
  • melhor

French

  • au lieu de
  • au contraire
  • plutôt
1145 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1252 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
808 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1680 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1114 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1783 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1915 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1616 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
252 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1436 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
761 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1034 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1407 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2856 Morohashi
1118 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
631 New Nelson (John Haig)
1395 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1497 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1101 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1444 2001 Kanji
2e5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
4772.0 Four corner code
1-21-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5374 Unicode hex code