Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
go slowly
Parts:
Variants:
summer
Kun:
なつ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
659 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 夏 【カ】 Xia dynasty (of China; c. 2070-1600 BCE; possibly mythological), Hsia dynasty
  • 夏季 【カキ】 summer season
  • 初夏 【ショカ】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
  • 盛夏 【セイカ】 midsummer, height of summer
  • 夏 【ゲ】 summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month)
  • 夏至 【ゲシ】 summer solstice
  • 一夏 【イチゲ】 one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat)
  • 半夏 【ハンゲ】 crow dipper (Pinellia tuber), 11th day after the summer solstice, last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

Kun reading compounds

  • 夏 【なつ】 summer
  • 夏季 【かき】 summer season
  • 初夏 【しょか】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
  • 常夏 【とこなつ】 everlasting summer

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xia4, jia3
Korean:
ha

Spanish

  • verano

Portuguese

  • verão

French

  • été
52 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
88 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
82 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
580 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
58 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
163 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
148 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1161 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.10 Japanese for Busy People
461 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
469 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
97 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
402 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2619 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1339 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1815 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
302 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5720 Morohashi
2113 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1120 New Nelson (John Haig)
296 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
317 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
188 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3167 2001 Kanji
4i7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-8 SKIP code
2-7-3 SKIP code
1024.7 Four corner code
1040.7 Four corner code
1-18-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
590f Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
marquis, lord, daimyo
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2363 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 侯 【コウ】 marquis, second highest rank of the five ranks of nobility, daimyo
  • 候補 【コウホ】 candidate, contender, prospect, pick, choice, list, candidacy, candidature, nomination
  • 王侯 【オウコウ】 the king and his feudal lords
  • 仙台侯 【センダイコウ】 Lord of Sendai

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hou2, hou4
Korean:
hu

Spanish

  • marqués
  • señor feudal
  • daimyo

Portuguese

  • marques
  • senhor
  • daimyo

French

  • marquis
  • seigneur
  • daimyo
1256 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2014 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
443 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1479 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
777 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1924 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2107 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1876 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
95 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
109 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
74 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
79 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1654 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
633 Morohashi
98 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
211 New Nelson (John Haig)
1639 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1767 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1227 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2163 2001 Kanji
2a7.21 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-7 SKIP code
2723.4 Four corner code
1-24-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4faf Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
greatness, excellence
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1926 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 傑 【ケツ】 the top (e.g. top ten), the best
  • 傑人 【ケツジン】 outstanding person, distinguished person, person of high caliber
  • 豪傑 【ゴウケツ】 hero, bold person, daring person, great person, extraordinary person
  • 英傑 【エイケツ】 great person, hero, mastermind, extraordinary person

Kun reading compounds

  • 優れる 【すぐれる】 to surpass, to outstrip, to excel

Readings

Japanese names:
すぐ、 たけ、 まさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jie2
Korean:
geol

Spanish

  • grandeza
  • excelencia
  • excelente

Portuguese

  • grandeza
  • excelência

French

  • grandeur
  • excellence
1211 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1601 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
517 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1208 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1063 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1827 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1731 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1849 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1431 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
127 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
175 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
115 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1008 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
955 Morohashi
155 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
293 New Nelson (John Haig)
999 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1074 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1606 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2164 2001 Kanji
2a11.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-11 SKIP code
2529.4 Four corner code
1-23-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5091 Unicode hex code