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

16 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
medicine, chemical, enamel, gunpowder, benefit
Kun:
くすり
On:
ヤク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
702 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 薬 【ヤク】 dope, narcotic, drug
  • 薬価 【ヤッカ】 drug price, cost of medicine
  • 製薬 【セイヤク】 medicine manufacture, drug manufacture
  • 医薬 【イヤク】 medicine, Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau

Kun reading compounds

  • 薬 【くすり】 medicine, pharmaceuticals, (legal) drugs, pill, ointment, salve, efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.), (pottery) glaze, (illegal) drug, narcotic, small bribe
  • 薬指 【くすりゆび】 ring finger, third finger, fourth finger (in piano-playing), fourth toe

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao4
Korean:
yag

Spanish

  • medicina
  • droga

Portuguese

  • remédio
  • produto químico
  • esmalte
  • pólvora
  • benefício

French

  • médicament
  • produit chimique
  • émail
  • poudre à canon
  • bénéfice
521 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
420 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
398 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
541 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4074 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
323 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
247 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2568 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.6 Japanese for Busy People
359 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
360 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
315 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
672 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3011 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1539 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2100 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1752 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32188PX Morohashi
2375 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5224 New Nelson (John Haig)
1736 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1873 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
439 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k13.15 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-13 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-44-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
85ac Unicode hex code