Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
paint, plaster, daub, smear, coating
Kun:
ぬ.るぬ.りまみ.れる
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1414 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 塗料 【トリョウ】 paints, painting material
  • 塗装 【トソウ】 coating, painting
  • 道途 【ドウト】 road
  • 糊塗 【コト】 patching up (e.g. a failure), covering up (e.g. a mistake), glossing over

Kun reading compounds

  • 塗る 【ぬる】 to paint, to plaster, to lacquer, to varnish, to spread, to smear, to put up (wallpaper)
  • 塗り 【ぬり】 coating (esp. lacquering)
  • 塗り替える 【ぬりかえる】 to repaint, to paint again, to paint (a different colour), to change completely, to break (a record), to redraw (e.g. the map), to remake
  • 春慶塗 【しゅんけいぬり】 Shunkei lacquerware, lacquerware created using transparent lacquer on yellow or red-stained wood, allowing the natural wood grain to be seen
  • 中塗り 【なかぬり】 intermediate coat of paint or lacquer, second coat
  • 塗れる 【まみれる】 to be smeared, to be covered

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tu2
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • pintar
  • embadurnar
  • untar
  • laquear
  • recubrir

Portuguese

  • pintura
  • gesso
  • emplastar
  • untar
  • cobertura

French

  • peinture
  • peindre
  • tartiner
  • barbouiller
  • enduire
  • recouvrir
1637 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1333 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1124 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1759 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
438 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2038 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1073 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1121 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1694 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
360 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3523 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1818 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2473 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1679 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5338 Morohashi
2841 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1074 New Nelson (John Haig)
1663 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1792 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1615 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
372 2001 Kanji
3b10.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-10-3 SKIP code
4416.3 Four corner code
3810.4 Four corner code
1-37-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5857 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
rub, paint, erase
On:
マツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2006 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 塗抹 【トマツ】 smear, daub, coating over

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mo3, ma1, mo4
Korean:
mal

Spanish

  • frotar
  • borrar
  • pintar
  • moler

Portuguese

  • esfregar
  • pintura
  • apagar

French

  • frotter
  • enduire
  • effacer
1836 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2043 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1870 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1344 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1914 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2090 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1471 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
884 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
370 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
277 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
651 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11926 Morohashi
313 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2112 New Nelson (John Haig)
644 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
694 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1187 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1364 2001 Kanji
3c5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
5509.0 Four corner code
1-43-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62b9 Unicode hex code