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奥

12 strokes
Radical:
big, very 大
Parts:
冂 大 米
Variants:
奧 嶴
heart, interior
Kun:
おく、 おく.まる、 くま
On:
オウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1018 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 奥地 【オクチ】 interior, backwoods, hinterland, back regions
  • 奥義 【オウギ】 secret techniques (of an art or skill), inner mysteries, essence, quintessence, heart
  • 最奥 【サイオウ】 deep inside, innermost place
  • 内奥 【ナイオウ】 inner part, depths

Kun reading compounds

  • 奥 【おく】 inner part, interior, back (of a drawer, one's throat, etc.), depths (e.g. of a forest), recesses (e.g. of a cave), heart, end (of a road, garden, etc.), living quarters (at the back of a house), inner room, recesses (of one's mind), bottom (of one's heart), behind (someone's words), mysteries (of an art)
  • 奥地 【おくち】 interior, backwoods, hinterland, back regions
  • 山奥 【やまおく】 deep in the mountains, mountain recesses
  • 大奥 【おおおく】 inner palace (in Edo Castle), palace's ladies chambers, shogun's harem
  • 奥まる 【おくまる】 to lie deep in, to extend far back

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 おお、 おん、 つ、 のく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ao4
Korean:
o, ug

Spanish

  • profundo
  • interior
  • esposa

Portuguese

  • coração
  • interior

French

  • intérieur
  • coeur
  • fond
  • épouse
1038 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
878 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
240 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
930 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
448 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1798 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
476 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
484 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
71 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
419 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3503 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1806 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2458 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
937 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5981 Morohashi
2824 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1165 New Nelson (John Haig)
928 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
997 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1520 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
863 2001 Kanji
6b6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-9-3 SKIP code
4-12-4 SKIP code
2-10-2 SKIP code
2743.0 Four corner code
1-17-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5965 Unicode hex code

田

5 strokes
Radical:
field 田
Parts:
田
rice field, rice paddy
Kun:
た
On:
デン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
90 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 田畑 【タハタ】 fields (of rice and other crops)
  • 田園 【デンエン】 the country, countryside, rural districts, cultivated land, fields
  • 桑田 【ソウデン】 mulberry plantation
  • 水田 【スイデン】 (water-filled) paddy field

Kun reading compounds

  • 田 【た】 rice field
  • 田植え 【たうえ】 rice planting
  • 新田 【しんでん】 new rice field, newly developed rice field, wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
  • 塩田 【えんでん】 saltpan, field for drying salt

Readings

Japanese names:
いなか、 おか、 たん、 で、 とう、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tian2
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

  • campo de arroz
  • arrozal

Portuguese

  • campo de arroz
  • arroz sem beneficiar

French

  • rizière
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
60 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
59 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
24 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2994 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
52 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
220 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
189 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
35 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
35 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1330 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3775 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1925 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2617 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21723 Morohashi
3041 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3727 New Nelson (John Haig)
14 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
14 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
61 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
45 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3676 2001 Kanji
5f0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
4-5-1 SKIP code
6040.0 Four corner code
1-37-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7530 Unicode hex code

元

4 strokes
Radical:
legs 儿
Parts:
二 儿 元
beginning, former time, origin
Kun:
もと
On:
ゲン、 ガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 元 【ゲン】 unknown (e.g. in an equation), element (of a set), yuan (monetary unit of China), New Taiwan dollar, Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368), Yüan dynasty, Mongol dynasty
  • 原価 【ゲンカ】 cost price
  • 中元 【チュウゲン】 15th day of the 7th lunar month, (last day of) Bon lantern festival, mid-year gift, summer gift, Bon Festival gifts
  • 抗原 【コウゲン】 antigen
  • 元祖 【ガンソ】 originator, pioneer, inventor, founder, progenitor, primogenitor, founder of a family line
  • 元日 【ガンジツ】 New Year's Day

Kun reading compounds

  • 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
  • 元 【もと】 former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before
  • 家元 【いえもと】 head of a school (of music, dance), head family of a school
  • 胸元 【むなもと】 breast, chest, pit of the stomach, solar plexus, epigastrium

Readings

Japanese names:
ちか、 はじめ、 はる、 ゆき、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • comienzo
  • principio
  • origen
  • jefe

Portuguese

  • começo
  • tempo anterior
  • origem

French

  • commencement
  • origine
  • ancien temps
68 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
117 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
106 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
328 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
275 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
106 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
121 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
60 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
137 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
137 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
245 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
141 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2428 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1226 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1690 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
59 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1340 Morohashi
1929 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
343 New Nelson (John Haig)
59 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
63 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
408 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
89 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
0a4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-3 SKIP code
1021.1 Four corner code
1-24-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5143 Unicode hex code

宋

7 strokes
Radical:
roof 宀
Parts:
宀 木
dwell, Sung dynasty
On:
ソウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2058 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 宋 【ソウ】 Song dynasty (of China; 960-1279), Sung dynasty, Liu Song dynasty (of China; 420-479), Liu Sung dynasty, Song (ancient Chinese state; 11th century-286 BCE), Sung
  • 宋音 【ソウオン】 sō-on, Song reading, on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese (esp. in words related to Zen Buddhism)
  • 北宋 【ホクソウ】 Northern Song dynasty (of China; 960-1127)
  • 入宋 【ニッソウ】 journeying to Song China during the Heian and Kamakura periods

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
song4
Korean:
song

Spanish

  • dinastía china Sung

Portuguese

French

1285 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
468 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2730 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1886 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
7078 Morohashi
1313 New Nelson (John Haig)
2215 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2326 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3m4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
3090.4 Four corner code
1-33-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b8b Unicode hex code