Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
roof
Parts:

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On reading compounds

  • 宛然 【エンゼン】 as if, the very thing itself
  • 宛転 【エンテン】 eloquent, fluent, smooth-spoken, sonorous, facile, silver-tongued, (of eyebrows) shapely

Kun reading compounds

  • 宛てる 【あてる】 to address
  • 恰も 【あたかも】 as if, as it were, as though, right then, just then, at that moment

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wan3, yuan1
Korean:
wan, weon

Spanish

  • algo así como
  • enteramente
  • completamente
  • dirección
  • afortunadamente

Portuguese

French

  • adresse (postale)
  • comme si
  • de chaque
  • heureusement
1799 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1292 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1897 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1374 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2762 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1908 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1429 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7110 Morohashi
2222 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1319 New Nelson (John Haig)
1417 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1521 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
756 2001 Kanji
3m5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
3021.2 Four corner code
1-16-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b9b Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
name, noted, distinguished, reputation
Kun:
-な
On:
メイミョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
177 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 名 【メイ】 counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such), first name, famous, great, name, noun
  • 名画 【メイガ】 famous picture, masterpiece (painting), excellent film, film classic
  • 同名 【ドウメイ】 same name, homonym
  • 芸名 【ゲイメイ】 stage name
  • 名目 【メイモク】 name, title, appellation, (something) nominal, (under the) pretext (of), pretense
  • 苗字 【ミョウジ】 surname, family name, last name
  • 仮名 【カメイ】 alias, pseudonym, pen name, nom de plume
  • 同名 【ドウメイ】 same name, homonym

Kun reading compounds

  • 名 【な】 name, given name, title, fame, renown, reputation, pretext, pretense, justification, appearance
  • 名残 【なごり】 remains, traces, vestiges, relics, (the sorrow of) parting, end
  • 仮名 【かめい】 alias, pseudonym, pen name, nom de plume
  • 【カタカナ】 katakana, angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ming2
Korean:
myeong

Spanish

  • nombre
  • célebre
  • distinguido
  • reputación

Portuguese

  • nome
  • fama
  • distinção
  • reputação

French

  • nom
  • célèbre
  • fameux
  • réputation
140 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
55 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
71 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
116 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1170 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
131 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
34 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
346 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
82 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
82 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
82 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
285 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2693 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1371 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1857 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
113 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3297 Morohashi
2169 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
716 New Nelson (John Haig)
112 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
117 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
140 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
53 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2577 2001 Kanji
3d3.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
4-6-1 SKIP code
3-3-3 SKIP code
2760.0 Four corner code
1-44-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
540d Unicode hex code