Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
boulder, rock, cliff
Kun:
いわ
On:
ガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
787 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 岩盤 【ガンバン】 bedrock
  • 岩石 【ガンセキ】 rock
  • 砂岩 【サガン】 sandstone
  • 石灰岩 【セッカイガン】 limestone

Kun reading compounds

  • 岩 【いわ】 rock, boulder, crag
  • 岩間 【いわま】 among rocks
  • 一枚岩 【いちまいいわ】 monolith, large slab of rock, unity (of a group, organization, etc.), unanimity, solidarity
  • 浮岩 【うきいわ】 rock partially submerged in water, rock partially emerging from the water, pumice stone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
am

Spanish

  • roca

Portuguese

  • rochedo
  • rocha
  • penhedo

French

  • rocher
  • roc
  • falaise
178 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
102 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
249 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
744 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1414 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
821 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
487 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
942 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1345 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1428 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
457 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
538 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2778 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1423 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1921 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
777 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7985 Morohashi
2235 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1461 New Nelson (John Haig)
770 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
832 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
156 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1277 2001 Kanji
3o5.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2260.1 Four corner code
1-20-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ca9 Unicode hex code

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 鷓鴣 【シャコ】 francolin (partridge-like bird of genus Francolinus), partridge (of genus Perdix)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhe4
Korean:
ja

Spanish

Portuguese

French

47251 Morohashi
6999 New Nelson (John Haig)
11b11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-11 SKIP code
0722.7 Four corner code
1-83-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9dd3 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鷓鴣 【シャコ】 francolin (partridge-like bird of genus Francolinus), partridge (of genus Perdix)
  • 岩鷓鴣 【イワシャコ】 chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu1
Korean:
go

Spanish

Portuguese

French

46814 Morohashi
6946 New Nelson (John Haig)
11b5.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-11 SKIP code
4762.7 Four corner code
1-82-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d23 Unicode hex code