Jisho

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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

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  • 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

8 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
Variants:
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kun:
ことつか.うつか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
  • 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
  • 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
  • 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency

Kun reading compounds

  • 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
  • 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
  • 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cosa
  • hecho
  • asunto
  • acción

Portuguese

  • matéria
  • coisa
  • fato
  • negócios
  • razão
  • possivelmente

French

  • fait
  • chose
  • matière
  • affaire
  • raison
  • peut-être
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
309 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
293 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
272 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
73 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
108 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
768 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
80 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
30 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4384 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
241 Morohashi
3567 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 New Nelson (John Haig)
1156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
300 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1547 2001 Kanji
0a8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
5000.7 Four corner code
1-27-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e8b Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
go, do
Parts:
going, journey, carry out, conduct, act, line, row, bank
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
20 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 行 【コウ】 going, travelling, traveling, journey, trip, act, action, bank, counter for banks, counter for groups or parties of people, type of classical Chinese verse (usu. an epic from the Tang period onwards), shopping district (of similar merchants; in the Sui and Tang periods), merchants' guild (in the Tang period)
  • 行為 【コウイ】 act, deed, conduct
  • 並行 【ヘイコウ】 going side-by-side, going abreast, running concurrently, occurring at the same time, keeping pace with
  • 性行 【セイコウ】 character and conduct
  • 行 【ギョウ】 line (of text), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations), semi-cursive style (of writing Chinese characters), running style
  • 行革 【ギョウカク】 administrative reform
  • 奉行 【ブギョウ】 magistrate, shogunate administrator
  • 施行 【シコウ】 putting in force (a law), putting into operation, putting into effect, enforcement, carrying out (a plan, policy, etc.), execution
  • 行脚 【アンギャ】 pilgrimage, walking tour, travelling (on foot)
  • 行火 【アンカ】 bed warmer, foot warmer

Kun reading compounds

  • 行く 【いく】 to go, to move (towards), to head (towards), to leave (for), to move through, to travel across, to walk along (e.g. a road), to go (well, badly, etc.), to proceed, to turn out, to get along, to do (in a particular way), to go (with; a choice), to try, to pass (of time, seasons, etc.), to go by, to stream, to flow, to die, to pass away, to reach (a stage, extent, age, etc.), to get to, to go (so far as ...), to reach (of information, instructions, wind, etc.), to arrive, to continue ..., to go on ..., to (progress) steadily, to gradually ..., to progressively ..., to have an orgasm, to come, to cum, to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination
  • 行く先 【ゆくさき】 destination, whereabouts, future, prospects
  • 行く 【いく】 to go, to move (towards), to head (towards), to leave (for), to move through, to travel across, to walk along (e.g. a road), to go (well, badly, etc.), to proceed, to turn out, to get along, to do (in a particular way), to go (with; a choice), to try, to pass (of time, seasons, etc.), to go by, to stream, to flow, to die, to pass away, to reach (a stage, extent, age, etc.), to get to, to go (so far as ...), to reach (of information, instructions, wind, etc.), to arrive, to continue ..., to go on ..., to (progress) steadily, to gradually ..., to progressively ..., to have an orgasm, to come, to cum, to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination
  • 行方 【ゆくえ】 (one's) whereabouts, destination, where one is headed, outcome, course (of events), development, direction, tide, future, journey ahead
  • 行う 【おこなう】 to perform, to do, to conduct oneself, to carry out
  • 行う 【おこなう】 to perform, to do, to conduct oneself, to carry out

Readings

Japanese names:
いく、 なみ、 なめ、 みち、 ゆき、 ゆく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xing2, hang2, hang4, xing4
Korean:
haeng, hang

Spanish

  • ir
  • fila
  • línea (texto)
  • ocurrencia
  • conducta
  • realizar
  • llevar a cabo
  • ocurrir

Portuguese

  • ir
  • viagem
  • viajar

French

  • aller
  • voyage
73 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
131 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
118 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
31 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4213 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
24 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
82 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
245 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
68 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
68 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
58 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1613 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
246 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
157 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
187 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
882 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
34029 Morohashi
212 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5419 New Nelson (John Haig)
873 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
938 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
18 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
123 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2053 2001 Kanji
3i3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-3 SKIP code
2122.1 Four corner code
1-25-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
884c Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
Variants:
do, change, make, benefit, welfare, be of use, reach to, try, practice, cost, serve as, good, advantage, as a result of
Kun:
ためな.るな.すす.るたりつく.るなり
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
831 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 為政者 【イセイシャ】 statesman, administrator, politician, policymaker
  • 為公会 【イコウカイ】 Iko-kai (faction of the LDP)
  • 人為 【ジンイ】 human work, human agency, art, artificiality
  • 営為 【エイイ】 business, occupation

Kun reading compounds

  • 為 【ため】 good, advantage, benefit, welfare, sake, purpose, objective, aim, consequence, result, effect, affecting, regarding, concerning
  • 為に 【ために】 for, for the sake of, to one's advantage, in favor of, in favour of, on behalf of, because of, as a result of
  • 外為 【がいため】 foreign exchange
  • 念のため 【ねんのため】 (just) making sure, just to be sure, just in case, for caution's sake
  • 成る 【なる】 to become, to get, to grow, to turn, to reach, to attain, to result in, to turn out, to end up, to prove (to be), to consist of, to be composed of, to be made up of, to be completed, to be realized, to succeed, to be attained, to be accomplished, to change (into), to turn (into), to transform, to come (to do), to begin (to do), to grow (to do), to come to, to amount to, to add up to, to make, to play (the part of), to act as, to be used for, to be useful for, to serve as, to be promoted, to do ...
  • 為す 【なす】 to build up, to establish, to form, to become (a state), to accomplish, to achieve, to succeed in, to change into, to do, to perform, to intend to, to attempt, to try
  • なす術 【なすすべ】 means, method, way
  • 為る 【する】 to do, to carry out, to perform, to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into), to serve as, to act as, to work as, to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.), to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as, to decide on, to choose, to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.), to be (in a state, condition, etc.), to be worth, to cost, to pass (of time), to elapse, to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B, to transform A to B, to make A into B, to exchange A for B, to make use of A for B, to view A as B, to handle A as if it were B, to feel A about B, verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"), creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"), to be just about to, to be just starting to, to try to, to attempt to
  • 成り 【なり】 promoted (of a piece)
  • 成り代わる 【なりかわる】 to take over for (someone), to stand in for, to substitute for, to replace, to take the place of (something)

Readings

Japanese names:
びい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wei4, wei2
Korean:
wi

Spanish

  • hacer
  • ocurrir
  • razón
  • causa

Portuguese

  • mudança
  • benefício
  • bem-estar
  • é de uso
  • tentativa
  • prática
  • custo
  • servir para
  • bom
  • vantagem
  • como um resultado de

French

  • faire
  • changer
  • bénéfice
  • bien-être
  • être utile
  • atteindre
  • essayer
  • s'entraîner
  • coûter
  • servir pour
  • bon
  • avantage
  • par suite de
1003 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1137 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
138 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
977 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1514 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1005 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1484 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1581 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
736 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1274 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4395 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2225 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2994 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1937 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18981P Morohashi
3577 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3411 New Nelson (John Haig)
1918 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2067 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
446 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
1277 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
950 2001 Kanji
4d5.8 The Kanji Dictionary
4-9-4 SKIP code
3-5-4 SKIP code
3402.7 Four corner code
1-16-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
70ba Unicode hex code