Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
evening, sunset
Parts:
night, evening
Kun:
よる
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
487 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 夜 【ヤ】 counter for nights
  • 夜間 【ヤカン】 night, nighttime
  • 同夜 【ドウヤ】 the same night, that night
  • 通夜 【ツヤ】 all-night vigil over a body, wake

Kun reading compounds

  • 夜 【よる】 evening, night, dinner
  • 夜明け 【よあけ】 dawn, daybreak
  • 毎夜 【まいよ】 every evening, every night
  • 短夜 【みじかよ】 short summer night
  • 夜 【よる】 evening, night, dinner
  • 夜ご飯 【よるごはん】 dinner, evening meal
  • 御寝 【およる】 sleep, rest
  • 銀河鉄道の夜 【ぎんがてつどうのよる】 Night on the Galactic Railroad (novel by Kenji Miyazawa), Milky Way Railroad

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ye4
Korean:
ya

Spanish

  • noche
  • tarde

Portuguese

  • noite
  • à noite

French

  • nuit
  • soirée
144 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
232 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
212 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
258 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
298 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
336 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
150 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
766 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
471 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
479 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
93 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
406 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2550 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1301 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1770 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1046 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5763 Morohashi
2056 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1129 New Nelson (John Haig)
1037 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1115 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
318 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
169 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
467 2001 Kanji
2j6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
3-4-4 SKIP code
3-3-5 SKIP code
0024.7 Four corner code
1-44-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
591c Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
nursing, attending, entertainer
Kun:
とぎ
On:
キャギャ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2323 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 伽耶 【カヤ】 Kaya (ancient Korean confederacy), Karak
  • 伽耶琴 【カヤグム】 gayageum (12-stringed Korean zither)
  • 閼伽 【アカ】 water offering to Buddha, holy water
  • 真那伽 【マナカ】 incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Malacca)
  • 伽藍 【ガラン】 temple (esp. large one), monastery, temple building
  • 伽藍鳥 【ガランチョウ】 pelican
  • 瑜伽 【ユガ】 yoga
  • 迦陵頻伽 【カリョウビンガ】 kalavinka, imaginary bird in paradise that sings sweet notes, person or creature with a beautiful voice
  • 伽羅 【キャラ】 aloes wood (Taxus cuspidata var. nana), aloes-wood perfume, aloes-wood incense
  • 伽羅蕗 【キャラブキ】 stalks of butterbur boiled in soy sauce
  • 僧伽 【ソウギャ】 sangha (the Buddhist community)

Kun reading compounds

  • 伽 【とぎ】 nursing, nurse, attending, attendant, entertainer
  • 伽芝居 【とぎしばい】 fairy play, pantomime
  • 御伽 【おとぎ】 attending (upon), keeping another company
  • 夜伽 【よとぎ】 attending someone through the night (of a guard, nurse), sleeping with a man (at his bidding), overnight vigil before burial

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jia1, qie2
Korean:
ga

Spanish

  • asistencia
  • cuidado
  • atención

Portuguese

French

398 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
357 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2014 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
74 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
46 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
49 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
486 Morohashi
159 New Nelson (John Haig)
2115 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2251 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2a5.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-5 SKIP code
2620.0 Four corner code
1-18-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f3d Unicode hex code