Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
grandchild, descendants
Kun:
まご
On:
ソン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1388 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 孫 【ソン】 descendant (usu. of a certain generation), lineage, pedigree, grandchild
  • 孫悟空 【ソンゴクウ】 Sun Wukong (character in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West), Monkey King, Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
  • 愛孫 【アイソン】 one's beloved grandchild
  • 外孫 【ガイソン】 grandchild from a daughter married into another family

Kun reading compounds

  • 孫 【まご】 grandchild
  • 孫子 【まごこ】 children and grandchildren, posterity, descendants
  • 初孫 【ういまご】 first grandchild
  • 内孫 【ないそん】 child of one's heir

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sun1
Korean:
son

Spanish

  • nieto
  • descendientes

Portuguese

  • neto
  • descendentes

French

  • petits-enfants
  • descendants
458 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
565 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
538 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1356 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1273 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
644 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
457 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1540 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
910 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
932 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
448 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
463 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
492 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
305 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
370 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1405 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6987 Morohashi
410 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1296 New Nelson (John Haig)
1393 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1494 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
551 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3541 2001 Kanji
2c7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
1-2-7 SKIP code
1249.3 Four corner code
1-34-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b6b Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
potato
Kun:
いも
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2418 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 海芋 【カイウ】 calla (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
  • 阿蘭陀海芋 【オランダカイウ】 calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica)

Kun reading compounds

  • 芋 【いも】 tuber, taro, potato, yam, yokel, bumpkin, dud, worthless thing
  • 芋洗い 【いもあらい】 washing potatoes (in a bucket), being very crowded, being packed with people
  • 焼き芋 【やきいも】 roasted sweet potato, baked sweet potato
  • 唐芋 【とういも】 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu4
Korean:
u, hu

Spanish

  • patata
  • batata

Portuguese

  • batata

French

  • pomme de terre
1011 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2001 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3896 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1682 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1694 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
288 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1909 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2081 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1834 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
639 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2706 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1381 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1868 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1670 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30670P Morohashi
2181 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4964 New Nelson (John Haig)
1655 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1784 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1088 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1947 2001 Kanji
3k3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
4440.1 Four corner code
1-16-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
828b Unicode hex code