Jisho

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孟

8 strokes
Radical:
child, seed 子
Parts:
子 皿
chief, beginning
Kun:
かしら
On:
モウ、 ボウ、 ミョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2127 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 孟子 【モウシ】 Mencius (372-289 BCE), Mengzi, Mencius (one of the Four Books)
  • 孟夏 【モウカ】 beginning of summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
  • 孔孟 【コウモウ】 Confucius and Mencius
  • 論孟 【ロンモウ】 the Confucian Analects and the Discourses of Mencius

Readings

Japanese names:
たけし、 たけ、 はる、 はじめ、 つとむ、 おさ、 はい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
meng4
Korean:
maeng, mang

Spanish

  • jefe
  • principio
  • comienzo
  • grande

Portuguese

French

1269 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
667 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2049 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2760 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1412 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1906 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
6960 Morohashi
2220 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1291 New Nelson (John Haig)
2872 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2c5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2-2-5 SKIP code
1710.7 Four corner code
1-44-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b5f Unicode hex code

郊

9 strokes (also 8)
Radical:
town (阝 right) 邑 (阝)
Parts:
亠 邦 父
outskirts, suburbs, rural area
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1304 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 郊外 【コウガイ】 suburb, residential area on the outskirt of a city, commuter belt
  • 郊外化 【コウガイカ】 suburbanization
  • 南郊 【ナンコウ】 southern suburbs
  • 北郊 【ホッコウ】 northern suburbs

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao1
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • afueras
  • suburbios
  • área rural

Portuguese

  • periferia
  • subúrbios
  • área rural

French

  • périphérie
  • banlieue
  • zone rurale
1254 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1237 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4761 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1030 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
968 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
888 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
817 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
836 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
503 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
756 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1638 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
864 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1181 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1861 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39392 Morohashi
1286 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6137 New Nelson (John Haig)
1844 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1987 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1299 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
444 2001 Kanji
2d6.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-3 SKIP code
1-6-2 SKIP code
0742.7 Four corner code
1-25-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
90ca Unicode hex code