Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
evening, sunset
Parts:
evening
Kun:
ゆう
On:
セキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
924 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 勺 【シャク】 shaku, traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 ml, shaku, traditional unit of area, approx. 0.033 meters square
  • 夕日 【ユウヒ】 evening sun, setting sun
  • 秋夕 【シュウセキ】 autumn evening
  • 一夕 【イッセキ】 one evening, some evenings

Kun reading compounds

  • 夕 【ゆう】 evening
  • 夕刊 【ゆうかん】 evening paper
  • 昨夕 【さくゆう】 yesterday evening, last night
  • 春の夕 【はるのゆう】 spring evening

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1, xi4
Korean:
seog, sa

Spanish

  • tarde
  • noche

Portuguese

  • Noite

French

  • soirée
98 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
54 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
44 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
627 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1167 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
734 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
149 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
33 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
81 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
81 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
95 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
403 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4195 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2123 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2871 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
109 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5749 Morohashi
3387 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1123 New Nelson (John Haig)
109 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
114 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
20 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2560 2001 Kanji
0a3.14 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-3-4 SKIP code
2720.0 Four corner code
1-45-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5915 Unicode hex code

21 strokes
Radical:
bird
Parts:
Variants:
crane, stork
Kun:
つる
On:
カク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1369 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鶴首 【カクシュ】 looking forward to
  • 鶴首して待つ 【カクシュシテマツ】 to wait expectantly, to be full of anticipation, to long for
  • 鶏群の一鶴 【ケイグンノイッカク】 a swan among ducklings, a diamond among stones, a great figure among the common run of men
  • 閑雲野鶴 【カンウンヤカク】 life in natural setting, free from worldly cares

Kun reading compounds

  • 鶴 【つる】 crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
  • 鶴岡工業高等専門学校 【つるおかこうぎょうこうとうせんもんがっこう】 Tsuruoka National College of Technology
  • 白鶴 【はくつる】 Hakutsuru (brand of sake)
  • 掃き溜めに鶴 【はきだめにつる】 a jewel in a dunghill

Readings

Japanese names:
たず、 ず、 か、 つ、 づ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
he4, hao2
Korean:
hag

Spanish

  • grulla
  • cigüeña

Portuguese

French

  • grue
  • cigogne
1120 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5365 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1917 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2926 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2277 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
950 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2326 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1201 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1641 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1962 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
47185 Morohashi
1850 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6995 New Nelson (John Haig)
1943 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2093 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1650 2001 Kanji
11b10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-11 SKIP code
4722.7 Four corner code
1-36-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9db4 Unicode hex code