Jisho

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夷

6 strokes
Radical:
big, very 大
Parts:
一 ノ 大 弓
barbarian, savage, Ainu
Kun:
えびす、 えみし、 ころ.す、 たい.らげる
On:
イ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2324 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 夷 【イ】 barbarian
  • 夷国 【イコク】 land of the barbarians
  • 攘夷 【ジョウイ】 expulsion of foreigners
  • 征夷 【セイイ】 defeating barbarians (esp. the Emishi), conquering barbarians

Kun reading compounds

  • 夷 【えびす】 peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu), provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city), brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan), foreigner, barbarian
  • 恵比寿 【えびす】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 東夷 【あずまえびす】 warrior from the eastern parts of Japan, eastern barbarians, people east of China (from the perspective of China)
  • 荒夷 【あらえびす】 crude warrior from the eastern parts of Japan, wild man

Readings

Japanese names:
し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi2
Korean:
i

Spanish

  • bárbaro
  • salvaje

Portuguese

French

182 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
535 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4349 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2962 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
5852 Morohashi
1143 New Nelson (John Haig)
2881 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2893 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a6.24 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-4 SKIP code
5003.2 Four corner code
1-16-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5937 Unicode hex code

隅

12 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
冂 厶 阡 日 田 禹
corner, nook
Kun:
すみ
On:
グウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1601 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 一隅 【イチグウ】 corner, nook
  • 四隅 【ヨスミ】 four corners, four ordinal directions

Kun reading compounds

  • 隅 【すみ】 corner, nook, recess, downstage right (on a noh stage)
  • 隅々 【すみずみ】 every corner, every nook and cranny, all the ins and outs
  • 四隅 【よすみ】 four corners, four ordinal directions
  • 一隅 【いちぐう】 corner, nook

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu2
Korean:
u

Spanish

  • esquina
  • rincón

Portuguese

  • esquina
  • canto

French

  • coin
  • recoin
1187 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1686 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5009 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
990 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1566 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1640 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1753 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1239 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
744 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
760 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
568 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1977 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41743X Morohashi
623 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6467 New Nelson (John Haig)
1958 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2108 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1599 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3653 2001 Kanji
2d9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
1-3-8 SKIP code
1-2-8 SKIP code
7622.7 Four corner code
1-22-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9685 Unicode hex code

川

3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
川
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Kun:
かわ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
  • 山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
  • 四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kun reading compounds

  • 川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
  • 川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
  • 堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
  • 山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • arroyo
  • río

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • rio

French

  • rivière
  • fleuve
  • radical rivière (no. 47)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
59 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
48 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
41 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
49 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
20 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
33 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
33 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
101 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
6 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8673 Morohashi
6 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1526 New Nelson (John Haig)
127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
21 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
0a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
2200.0 Four corner code
1-32-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ddd Unicode hex code