| 119 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 67 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 58 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 364 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 16 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 78 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 41 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 93 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.8 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 141 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 141 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 462 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 410 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4250 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2148 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2898 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 435 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 5833 | Morohashi |
| 3442 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1138 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 428 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 457 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 277 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 34 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
512 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 天 【テン】 sky, heaven, God, svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth), deva (divine being of Buddhism), top (of a book), sole (of a Japanese sandal), beginning, start, tempura, India
- 天下 【テンカ】 the whole world, the whole country, society, the public, supremacy over a nation, government of a country, the ruling power, having one's own way, doing as one pleases, peerless, incomparable, superlative, world-famous, shogun (Edo period)
- 炎天 【エンテン】 blazing heat, scorching sun
- 楽天 【ラクテン】 optimism
Kun reading compounds
- 天津 【あまつ】 heavenly, imperial
- 天津乙女 【あまつおとめ】 celestial maiden
- 天 【あめ】 sky
- 天地 【てんち】 heaven and earth, the universe, the world, nature, land, world, realm, sphere, top and bottom, gods of heaven and earth
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あき、 あも、 た、 たかし、 て、 なま
- Korean:
- cheon
Spanish
- paraíso
- cielo
- imperial
Portuguese
- paraíso
- ceú
- imperiais
French
- cieux
- ciel
- impérial
| 3163 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a4.21 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-4-1 | SKIP code |
| 1043.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-23 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5929 | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 狗子仏性 【クシブッショウ】 the Mu koan ("does a dog have Buddha nature?")
- 狗屠 【クト】 dog slaughter, killing of dogs, dog butcher
- 走狗 【ソウク】 hound, hunting dog, running dog, dupe, tool of another person, cat's-paw
- 狡兎良狗 【コウトリョウク】 When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off
Kun reading compounds
- 犬 【いぬ】 dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris), squealer, rat, snitch, informer, informant, spy, loser, asshole, counterfeit, inferior, useless, wasteful
- 【イヌワシ】 golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
- 喪家の狗 【そうかのいぬ】 feeling lost like a stray dog
Readings
- Korean:
- gu
Spanish
Portuguese
French
| 2875 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 566 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 405 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 20345 | Morohashi |
| 345 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3565 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2341 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2430 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 3g5.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-5 | SKIP code |
| 4722.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-22-73 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 72d7 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1772 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 猿人 【エンジン】 ape man
- 猿害 【エンガイ】 damages inflicted by monkeys (on crops, etc.)
- 人類猿 【ジンルイエン】 anthropoid ape
- 孤猿 【コエン】 lone monkey, stray monkey
Kun reading compounds
- 猿 【さる】 monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata), ape, non-human primate, sly person, idiot, hick, sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut), clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook, bathhouse prostitute
- 猿尾 【さるお】 backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body
- 木から落ちた猿 【きからおちたさる】 person who has lost something they used to rely on, a monkey fallen from the tree
- 真猿 【まさる】 monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- さ、 さわ、 ざる、 まし
- Korean:
- weon
Spanish
- mono
- simio
Portuguese
- Macaco
French
- singe
| 1028 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1717 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2905 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1529 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2062 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1584 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1690 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1865 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1308 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 824 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 479 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 612 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 410 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 20584 | Morohashi |
| 669 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3600 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 403 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 430 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1648 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2965 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3g10.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-10 | SKIP code |
| 4423.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-17-78 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 733f | Unicode hex code |