Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
pit, hole
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2040 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 坑 【コウ】 pit (esp. of a mine)
  • 坑口 【コウコウ】 pithead, minehead
  • 廃坑 【ハイコウ】 closure of a mine, abandoned mine, disused mine
  • 開坑 【カイコウ】 opening of mine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
keng1
Korean:
gaeng

Spanish

  • hoyo
  • agujero
  • caverna
  • mina

Portuguese

  • buraco
  • furo

French

  • mine
  • fosse
  • trou
1245 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1853 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1063 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1524 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1148 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1613 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1721 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1928 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
369 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
277 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
174 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
208 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
312 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4932 Morohashi
236 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
987 New Nelson (John Haig)
306 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
328 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1108 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1457 2001 Kanji
3b4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
4011.7 Four corner code
1-25-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5751 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
husband, man
Kun:
おっとそれ
On:
フウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
335 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 夫妻 【フサイ】 husband and wife, married couple
  • 夫婦 【フウフ】 married couple, husband and wife, man and wife
  • 継夫 【ケイフ】 second husband
  • 炊夫 【スイフ】 male cook
  • 夫婦 【フウフ】 married couple, husband and wife, man and wife
  • 夫子 【フウシ】 teacher, wise man, sage, master, Confucius, the person concerned, you, he, she
  • 一工夫 【ヒトクフウ】 a bit of contrivance, some fiddling, a little ingenuity
  • 創意工夫 【ソウイクフウ】 ingenuity, inventiveness, creative originality
  • 夫人 【フジン】 wife, Mrs, madam, wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.), consort of the emperor
  • 賦役 【フエキ】 slave labour, slave labor, compulsory service, forced labour, forced labor, exacted service
  • 大夫 【ダイブ】 high steward, grand master
  • 右京大夫 【ウキョウノダイブ】 Ukyō no Daibu (title under the ritsuryō system), high steward

Kun reading compounds

  • 夫 【おっと】 husband
  • 夫選び 【おっとえらび】 choosing a husband
  • DV夫 【ディーブイおっと】 (physically) abusive husband, wife beater
  • 元夫 【もとおっと】 ex-husband, former husband
  • 其れ其れ 【それぞれ】 each, respectively

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 と、 ゆう、 よ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu1, fu2
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • marido
  • hombre
  • esposo

Portuguese

  • marido
  • homem

French

  • mari
  • homme
501 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
601 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
573 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
265 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
164 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
51 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
445 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
104 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
315 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
315 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
595 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
411 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4271 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2157 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2909 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
846 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5835 Morohashi
3460 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1136 New Nelson (John Haig)
838 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
901 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
220 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
445 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1463 2001 Kanji
0a4.31 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
5003.0 Four corner code
1-41-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
592b Unicode hex code