| 269 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 181 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 164 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 343 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1172 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 508 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 151 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 105 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 629 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 639 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 124 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 409 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2673 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1360 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1846 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 121 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 5834 | Morohashi |
| 2152 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1137 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 120 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 126 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 257 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 98 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
552 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 大山 【タイザン】 great mountain, large mountain
- 太鼓 【タイコ】 drum
- 太太 【タイタイ】 wife
- 馬太 【マタイ】 Matthew (the Apostle)
- 大山 【タイザン】 great mountain, large mountain
- 太鼓 【タイコ】 drum
- 羽太 【ハタ】 sea basses, groupers
- 赤羽太 【アカハタ】 blacktip grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus fasciatus)
Kun reading compounds
- 太い 【ふとい】 fat, thick, deep (of a voice), thick, sonorous, daring, shameless, brazen, audacious
- 太藺 【ふとい】 softstem bulrush (Scirpus tabernaemontani)
- 太る 【ふとる】 to put on weight, to gain weight, to grow fat, to get stout
Readings
- Japanese names:
- おお、 たか、 ひろ
- Korean:
- tae
Spanish
- grande
- gordo
- grueso
- engordar
Portuguese
- gordo
- grande
- espesso
French
- gras
- dodu
- gros
| 1463 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a4.18 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-1 | SKIP code |
| 4-4-4 | SKIP code |
| 4003.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-34-32 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 592a | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 棹歌 【トウカ】 boatmen's song
Kun reading compounds
- 竿 【さお】 rod, pole, neck (of a shamisen, etc.), shamisen, beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance), single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese), penis, counter for flags (on poles), counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. yōkan)
- 棹さす 【さおさす】 to pole (a boat), to punt (a boat), to swim with (the tide), to go with (the flow, the times, etc.), to go against (the tide, the flow, etc.)
- 殻竿 【からざお】 flail (for threshing grain)
Readings
- Korean:
- do, jo
Spanish
Portuguese
French
| 2291 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1620 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 14992 | Morohashi |
| 2738 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 4a8.38 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-8 | SKIP code |
| 4194.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-60-10 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 68f9 | Unicode hex code |