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

15 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
melancholy, grieve, lament, be anxious, sad, unhappy
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1625 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 憂慮 【ユウリョ】 anxiety, concern, fear
  • 憂鬱 【ユウウツ】 depression, melancholy, dejection, gloom, despondency
  • 外憂 【ガイユウ】 external troubles, foreign threat
  • 内憂 【ナイユウ】 internal troubles, domestic discord

Kun reading compounds

  • 憂える 【うれえる】 to worry about, to be anxious about, to be concerned about, to lament, to grieve, to feel sorrow for
  • 憂い 【うれい】 sorrow, grief, anguish, distress, anxiety, worry, trouble, affliction, fear, misgivings
  • 憂い顔 【うれいがお】 sad face, sorrowful face, anxious look, sad countenance
  • 憂い 【うい】 unhappy, sad, gloomy
  • 憂き 【うき】 unhappy, sad, gloomy
  • 憂き目 【うきめ】 bitter experience, misery, distress, grief, sad thoughts, hardship

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
you1
Korean:
u

Spanish

  • pesadumbre
  • inquietud
  • preocupación
  • estar apesadumbrado
  • estar inquieto
  • estar preocupado

Portuguese

  • melancolia
  • luto
  • lamento
  • está infeliz
  • triste
  • ansioso

French

  • mélancolie
  • dépression
  • chagrin
  • lamentation
  • triste
  • anxieux
  • malheureux
1871 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1627 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
70 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1518 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1319 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1032 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1073 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1829 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
800 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2664 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1357 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1842 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
624 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11170 Morohashi
2145 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1971 New Nelson (John Haig)
616 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
663 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1763 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3167 2001 Kanji
4i12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-13 SKIP code
2-8-7 SKIP code
1024.7 Four corner code
1040.7 Four corner code
1-45-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6182 Unicode hex code

29 strokes
Radical:
herbs, sacrificial wine
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 鬱 【ウツ】 depression, low spirits, luxuriant (of vegetation)
  • うつ病 【ウツビョウ】 depression
  • 蓊鬱 【オウウツ】 overgrown, exuberant, lush
  • 抗うつ 【コウウツ】 antidepressant

Kun reading compounds

  • 鬱ぐ 【ふさぐ】 to feel depressed, to be in low spirits, to mope

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu4
Korean:
ul

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2411 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1764 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3625 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2528 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
45671 Morohashi
6830 New Nelson (John Haig)
2120 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a25.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-14-15 SKIP code
4472.2 Four corner code
1-61-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9b31 Unicode hex code