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川

3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
川
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Kun:
かわ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
  • 山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
  • 四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kun reading compounds

  • 川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
  • 川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
  • 堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
  • 山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • arroyo
  • río

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • rio

French

  • rivière
  • fleuve
  • radical rivière (no. 47)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
59 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
48 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
41 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
49 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
20 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
33 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
33 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
101 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
6 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8673 Morohashi
6 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1526 New Nelson (John Haig)
127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
21 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
0a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
2200.0 Four corner code
1-32-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ddd Unicode hex code

尻

5 strokes
Radical:
corpse 尸
Parts:
九 尸
buttocks, hips, butt, rear
Kun:
しり
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1692 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 後輪 【コウリン】 rear wheel, cantle
  • 尻座 【コウザ】 crouching

Kun reading compounds

  • 尻 【しり】 buttocks, behind, rump, bottom, hips, undersurface, bottom, last place, end, consequence
  • 尻尾 【しっぽ】 tail (of an animal), tail end, tip
  • 道の後 【みちのしり】 the part of a province furthest from the capital
  • 美尻 【びしり】 beautiful buttocks

Readings

Japanese names:
がみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kao1
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • asentaderas
  • trasero
  • culo
  • parte trasera

Portuguese

French

1704 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1379 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1884 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
176 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2029 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3766 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2610 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
7634 Morohashi
3032 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1407 New Nelson (John Haig)
2220 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3757 2001 Kanji
3r2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
7721.7 Four corner code
1-31-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c3b Unicode hex code