Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
roof
Parts:
house, home, family, professional, expert, performer
Kun:
いえうち
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
133 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 家 【カ】 -ist, -er
  • 家屋 【カオク】 house, building
  • 研究家 【ケンキュウカ】 researcher, student (of)
  • 活動家 【カツドウカ】 activist
  • 家 【ケ】 house, family
  • 家来 【ケライ】 retainer, retinue, servant
  • 本家 【ホンケ】 head house (family), birthplace, originator
  • 公家 【クゲ】 court noble, nobility, kuge, Imperial Court

Kun reading compounds

  • 家 【いえ】 house, residence, dwelling, family, household, lineage, family name
  • 家主 【やぬし】 landlord, landlady, house owner, home owner, head of the household
  • 本家 【ほんけ】 head house (family), birthplace, originator
  • 小家 【こいえ】 small and simple home
  • 屋 【や】 shop, store, restaurant, someone who sells (something) or works as (something), someone with a (certain) personality trait, house, roof
  • 家内 【かない】 (my) wife, inside the home, one's family
  • 長屋 【ながや】 tenement house, row house
  • 本家 【ほんけ】 head house (family), birthplace, originator
  • 家 【うち】 one's house, one's home, one's family, one's household, house
  • 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
  • お家 【おうち】 your home, your family, their home, their family, (my) home

Readings

Japanese names:
あり、 え、 く、 つか、 べ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jia1, gu1
Korean:
ga

Spanish

  • casa
  • hogar
  • especialista

Portuguese

  • casa
  • lar

French

  • maison
53 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
89 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
83 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
81 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1311 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
151 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
158 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1185 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
165 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
165 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
52 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
480 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2827 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1458 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1963 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
547 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7169 Morohashi
2273 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1337 New Nelson (John Haig)
541 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
580 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
46 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
189 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
751 2001 Kanji
3m7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-7 SKIP code
3023.2 Four corner code
1-18-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5bb6 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
bird
Parts:
pigeon, dove
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1637 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 鳩首 【キュウシュ】 going into a huddle
  • 糾合 【キュウゴウ】 rally, muster
  • 鶚 【ミサゴ】 osprey (Pandion haliaetus), fish hawk
  • 軍鳩 【グンキュウ】 carrier pigeon, war pigeon
  • 鳩槃荼 【クハンダ】 Kumbhanda, demon with large testicles believed to drain people of their vitality

Kun reading compounds

  • 鳩 【はと】 pigeon, dove
  • 鳩が豆鉄砲を食ったよう 【はとがまめでっぽうをくったよう】 like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)
  • レース鳩 【レースはと】 racing pigeon, homing pigeon
  • 白鳩 【しろはと】 dove

Readings

Japanese names:
やす
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiu1
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • paloma

Portuguese

French

  • pigeon
  • colombe
5342 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1825 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2273 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
184 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
120 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
141 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1965 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
46648 Morohashi
163 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6936 New Nelson (John Haig)
1946 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2096 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11b2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-11 SKIP code
4702.7 Four corner code
1-40-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9ce9 Unicode hex code