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宮

10 strokes
Radical:
roof 宀
Parts:
ノ 口 宀
Shinto shrine, constellations, palace, princess
Kun:
みや
On:
キュウ、 グウ、 ク、 クウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N1
367 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 宮 【キュウ】 palace, tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale), ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women), zodiacal sign
  • 宮中 【キュウチュウ】 imperial court
  • 離宮 【リキュウ】 imperial villa, royal villa, detached palace
  • 巨蟹宮 【キョカイキュウ】 Cancer (4th zodiacal sign), the Crab
  • 宮司 【グウジ】 chief priest
  • 宮寺 【グウジ】 Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine
  • 二宮 【ニグウ】 the Two Ise Shrines
  • 東宮 【トウグウ】 crown prince
  • 宮内庁 【クナイチョウ】 Imperial Household Agency
  • 宮内 【クナイ】 inside the Imperial Palace, Department of the Imperial Household
  • 月宮 【ゲッキュウ】 moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra
  • 夙 【シュク】 outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period
  • 内宮 【ナイクウ】 Inner Ise Shrine
  • 外宮 【ゲクウ】 outer shrine of the Ise Grand Shrine

Kun reading compounds

  • 宮 【みや】 shrine, palace, imperial residence, Imperial prince, Imperial princess, headboard with built-in shelves, drawers, etc., temple
  • 宮家 【みやけ】 house of an imperial prince
  • 若宮 【わかみや】 young imperial prince, child of the imperial family, shrine dedicated to a child of the god of the main shrine, newly built shrine (to which a divided tutelary deity has just been transferred)
  • 大宮 【おおみや】 imperial palace, shrine, Grand Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child, elderly woman of imperial lineage

Readings

Japanese names:
ぐ、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gong1
Korean:
gung

Spanish

  • príncipe
  • familia imperial
  • santuario

Portuguese

  • Templo Shinto
  • constelação
  • palácio
  • princesa

French

  • sanctuaire
  • constellations
  • palais
  • princesse
374 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
274 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
256 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
419 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1310 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
546 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1209 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1184 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
721 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
734 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
929 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
482 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2828 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1459 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1042 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7156 Morohashi
2274 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1336 New Nelson (John Haig)
1033 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1110 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
353 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
777 2001 Kanji
3m7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-7 SKIP code
3060.6 Four corner code
1-21-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5bae Unicode hex code

内

4 strokes
Radical:
open country 冂
Parts:
人 冂
inside, within, between, among, house, home
Kun:
うち
On:
ナイ、 ダイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
44 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 内 【ナイ】 within ..., inside ...
  • 内科 【ナイカ】 internal medicine, department of internal medicine
  • 党内 【トウナイ】 party-internal, within the party
  • 校内 【コウナイ】 within a school
  • 内裏 【ダイリ】 imperial palace, festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
  • 内府 【ナイフ】 Minister of the Interior (669-1868), Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945)
  • 境内 【ケイダイ】 grounds (esp. of shrines and temples), compound, churchyard, precincts
  • 海内 【カイダイ】 the whole country

Kun reading compounds

  • 内 【うち】 inside, within, while (e.g. one is young), during, within (e.g. a day), in the course of, among, amongst, (out) of, between, in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.), amidst, with (e.g. success), within oneself, one's feelings, inner thoughts, we, our company, our organization, one's home, one's family, my spouse, my husband, my wife, signed on behalf of (husband's name) by his wife, I, me, imperial palace grounds, emperor
  • 内々 【うちうち】 private, confidential, informal, secret, (within the) family circle, (on the) inside
  • 幕内 【まくうち】 makuuchi, top division (of professional sumo)
  • お家 【おうち】 your home, your family, their home, their family, (my) home

Readings

Japanese names:
いと、 ただ、 ち、 のち
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nei4
Korean:
nae, nab

Spanish

  • interior
  • dentro de
  • privado

Portuguese

  • interior
  • dentro
  • entre
  • dentre
  • casa

French

  • intérieur
  • dedans
  • entre
  • parmi
  • maison
489 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
207 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
364 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
51 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
82 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
132 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
345 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
81 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
84 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
84 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
152 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
160 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4277 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2162 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2914 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1028 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1512 Morohashi
3466 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
386 New Nelson (John Haig)
1019 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1095 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
77 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
99 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1653 2001 Kanji
0a4.23 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
4022.7 Four corner code
1-38-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5185 Unicode hex code

府

8 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
化 寸 广
borough, urban prefecture, govt office, representative body, storehouse
On:
フ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
170 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 府 【フ】 (urban) prefecture (i.e. Osaka and Kyoto), centre (e.g. of learning), center, seat, (government) office, fu (administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam)
  • 府警 【フケイ】 prefectural police (Osaka or Kyoto)
  • 総理府 【ソウリフ】 Prime Minister's office, PMO
  • 無政府 【ムセイフ】 anarchy

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 う、 お、 はん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu3
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • municipio
  • prefectura urbana

Portuguese

  • burgo
  • região urbana
  • altocomissariado
  • corpo representativo
  • depósito

French

  • préfecture urbaine
  • arrondissement
  • bureau de gouvernement
  • corps représentatif
  • entrepôt
503 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
603 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
575 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
156 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1507 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
260 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
509 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
740 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
504 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
513 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
337 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
587 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3824 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1960 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2654 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1011 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9283 Morohashi
3082 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1611 New Nelson (John Haig)
1002 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1077 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
168 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
515 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
548 2001 Kanji
3q5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
0024.0 Four corner code
1-41-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e9c Unicode hex code

大

3 strokes
Radical:
big, very 大
Parts:
大
large, big
Kun:
おお-、 おお.きい、 -おお.いに
On:
ダイ、 タイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
7 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 大 【ダイ】 large, big, great, huge, vast, major, important, serious, severe, great, prominent, eminent, distinguished, -sized, as big as, the size of, university, large (e.g. serving size), large option, long month (i.e. having 31 days)
  • 大尉 【タイイ】 captain (Army, US Marine Corps, USAF), lieutenant (Navy), flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.)
  • 国大 【コクダイ】 national university
  • 電通大 【デンツウダイ】 University of Electro-Communications
  • 大 【タイ】 nth year in the Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25)
  • 大尉 【タイイ】 captain (Army, US Marine Corps, USAF), lieutenant (Navy), flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.)
  • 御大 【オンタイ】 boss, governor, headman

Kun reading compounds

  • 大きい 【おおきい】 big, large, great, loud, extensive, spacious, important, decisive, valuable, older, grown up

Readings

Japanese names:
うふ、 お、 おう、 た、 たかし、 とも、 はじめ、 ひろ、 ひろし、 まさ、 まさる、 もと、 わ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
da4, dai4
Korean:
dae, da, tae

Spanish

  • grande
  • muy
  • mucho

Portuguese

  • grande
  • enorme

French

  • grand
22 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
25 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
53 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
7 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1171 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
40 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
48 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
26 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
26 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
87 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
408 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4224 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2882 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
108 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5831 Morohashi
3416 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1133 New Nelson (John Haig)
107 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
112 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
5 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
14 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1463 2001 Kanji
0a3.18 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-4 SKIP code
4003.0 Four corner code
1-34-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5927 Unicode hex code

韓

18 strokes
Radical:
tanned leather 韋
Parts:
十 口 日 韋
Korea
Kun:
から、 いげた
On:
カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
445 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 韓 【カン】 Republic of Korea, South Korea, Han (ancient Chinese state)
  • 韓国 【カンコク】 South Korea, Republic of Korea, Korean Empire (1897-1910)
  • 日韓 【ニッカン】 Japan and South Korea, Japanese-Korean
  • 在韓 【ザイカン】 resident in South Korea, situated in South Korea

Kun reading compounds

  • 唐 【から】 China (sometimes also used in ref. to Korea or other foreign countries)
  • 唐国 【からくに】 China, Korea

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
han2
Korean:
han

Spanish

  • antigua región de China
  • Corea

Portuguese

French

  • Corée
685 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5107 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2741 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1250 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2218 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1575 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1662 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43159 Morohashi
1757 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6602 New Nelson (John Haig)
1647 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1776 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1555 2001 Kanji
4c14.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-10 SKIP code
4445.6 Four corner code
1-20-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
97d3 Unicode hex code

帝

9 strokes
Radical:
turban, scarf 巾
Parts:
亠 并 冖 巾 立
sovereign, the emperor, god, creator
Kun:
みかど
On:
テイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1276 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 帝国 【テイコク】 empire, imperial
  • 帝京 【テイキョウ】 the capital
  • 女帝 【ジョテイ】 empress
  • 大帝 【タイテイ】 great emperor, ... the Great

Kun reading compounds

  • 帝 【みかど】 emperor (of Japan), mikado, (the gates of an) imperial residence
  • 帝揚羽 【みかどあげは】 common jay (species of swallowtail butterfly, Graphium doson)
  • 時の帝 【ときのみかど】 emperor of the time

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
di4
Korean:
je

Spanish

  • soberano
  • emperador

Portuguese

  • soberano
  • o imperador
  • Deus
  • criador

French

  • souverain
  • empereur
  • dieu
  • créateur
1616 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1024 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
305 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
906 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1250 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
971 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1179 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1237 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1066 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
561 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2573 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1315 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1786 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
442 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8865 Morohashi
2073 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1560 New Nelson (John Haig)
435 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
466 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1250 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
444 2001 Kanji
2j7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-7 SKIP code
2-6-3 SKIP code
0022.7 Four corner code
1-36-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e1d Unicode hex code

国

8 strokes
Radical:
enclosure 囗
Parts:
丶 囗 王
Variants:
國 圀
country
Kun:
くに
On:
コク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 国益 【コクエキ】 national interest
  • 国営 【コクエイ】 government management, state management
  • 最恵国 【サイケイコク】 most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN
  • 異国 【イコク】 foreign country

Kun reading compounds

  • 国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth
  • 国人 【こくじん】 indigenous person, inhabitant of a country, local, native, local lords and samurai, daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
  • お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
  • 現国 【うつしくに】 world of mankind, this world

Readings

Japanese names:
くな、 こ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2
Korean:
gug

Spanish

  • país

Portuguese

  • País
  • terra
  • nação

French

  • pays
79 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
136 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
123 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
8 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1037 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
111 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
36 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
745 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
40 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
40 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
151 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
344 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3831 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2659 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
588 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4752 Morohashi
3087 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
950 New Nelson (John Haig)
581 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
624 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
158 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3172 2001 Kanji
3s5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
6010.3 Four corner code
1-25-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56fd Unicode hex code