Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
scholar, bachelor
Parts:
9th calendar sign
Kun:
みずのえ
On:
ニンジン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2499 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 壬 【ジン】 9th in rank, ninth sign of the Chinese calendar
  • 壬寅 【ミズノエトラ】 Water Tiger (39th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1962, 2022, 2082)

Kun reading compounds

  • 壬 【じん】 9th in rank, ninth sign of the Chinese calendar
  • 壬戌 【みずのえいぬ】 Water Dog (59th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1922, 1982, 2042)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ren2
Korean:
im

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2050 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2921 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
116 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4257 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2899 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
5639 Morohashi
968 New Nelson (John Haig)
3p1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-2 SKIP code
2010.4 Four corner code
1-31-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
58ec Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
ten, complete
Parts:
noon, sign of the horse, 11AM-1PM, seventh sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
うま
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
154 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 午前 【ゴゼン】 morning, a.m.
  • 午後 【ゴゴ】 afternoon, p.m.
  • 端午 【タンゴ】 Boys' Day celebration (May 5), Dragon Boat Festival (China)
  • 亭午 【テイゴ】 noon

Kun reading compounds

  • 午 【うま】 the Horse (seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Horse (around noon, 11am-1pm, or 12 noon-2pm), south, fifth month of the lunar calendar
  • 午年 【うまどし】 year of the Horse
  • 庚午 【かのえうま】 Metal Horse (7th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1930, 1990, 2050)
  • 甲午 【きのえうま】 Wood Horse (31st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1954, 2014, 2074)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu3
Korean:
o

Spanish

  • mediodía

Portuguese

  • meio-dia

French

  • midi
  • signe de la 7ème branche terrestre
  • signe du Cheval (zodiaque)
  • 11 h à 13 h
  • Sud (180°)
207 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
122 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
110 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
98 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
162 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
140 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
27 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
112 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
49 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
49 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
28 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
241 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2478 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1254 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1720 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
575 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2703 Morohashi
1984 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
604 New Nelson (John Haig)
568 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
610 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
91 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2355 2001 Kanji
2k2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-2 SKIP code
4-4-3 SKIP code
8040.0 Four corner code
1-24-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5348 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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On reading compounds

  • 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

9 strokes
Radical:
go
Parts:
Variants:
unusual, change, strange
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
238 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 変 【ヘン】 strange, odd, peculiar, weird, curious, eccentric, funny, suspicious, fishy, unexpected, change, incident, disturbance, disaster, accident, emergency, flat
  • 変化 【ヘンカ】 change, variation, alteration, mutation, transition, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, variety, diversity, inflection, declension, conjugation, sidestepping
  • 政変 【セイヘン】 political disturbance, political change, change of government, political upheaval, overthrowing of a government, coup d'état, coup, revolution
  • 異変 【イヘン】 unusual event, strange occurrence, strange phenomenon, something abnormal, change (for the worse), accident, disaster

Kun reading compounds

  • 変わる 【かわる】 to change, to be transformed, to be altered, to vary, to move to, to be different, to be uncommon, to be unusual
  • 変わり 【かわり】 change, alteration, difference, distinction, something wrong, abnormality, unusual event, accident, incident
  • 変わり種 【かわりだね】 something out of the ordinary, variant, variety, exception, novelty, person with an unusual character or background, unique figure, exceptional type, eccentric, oddball
  • 変える 【かえる】 to change, to alter, to transform, to convert, to turn, to vary, to reform, to revise, to amend

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bian4
Korean:
byeon

Spanish

  • inusual
  • extraño
  • cambio
  • cambiar
  • alterar
  • modificar

Portuguese

  • raro
  • mudança
  • estranhar

French

  • insolite
  • étrange
  • changer
509 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
609 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
581 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
324 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
306 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
191 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
443 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
970 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
257 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
257 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
222 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
401 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2569 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1311 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1782 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1761 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5703 Morohashi
2069 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1119 New Nelson (John Haig)
1745 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1882 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
254 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
532 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
467 2001 Kanji
2j7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-7 SKIP code
2-6-3 SKIP code
0024.7 Four corner code
0040.7 Four corner code
1-42-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5909 Unicode hex code