Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
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

12 strokes
Radical:
turban, scarf
Parts:
hanging scroll, width
Kun:
はば
On:
フク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
641 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 幅 【フク】 scroll, counter for scrolls
  • 幅員 【フクイン】 width (of a road, bridge, etc.)
  • 増幅 【ゾウフク】 amplification, magnification, amplification, making larger
  • 双幅 【ソウフク】 pair of hanging scrolls

Kun reading compounds

  • 幅 【はば】 width, breadth, freedom (e.g. of thought), latitude, gap, difference (e.g. in price), range (e.g. of voice)
  • 幅広い 【はばひろい】 extensive, wide, broad
  • 小幅 【こはば】 small, narrow, single-breadth cloth (approx. 36 cm wide)
  • 値幅 【ねはば】 price range or fluctuation

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu2
Korean:
pog, bog

Spanish

  • anchura
  • rollo
  • pergamino
  • contador de rollos

Portuguese

  • laço
  • largura

French

  • largeur
  • kakémono
  • tenture murale
1764 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
682 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1484 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1234 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
501 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1380 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1467 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
897 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
568 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
694 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
417 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
523 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
414 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8995 Morohashi
569 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1574 New Nelson (John Haig)
407 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
435 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1524 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1676 2001 Kanji
3f9.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
4126.6 Four corner code
1-41-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e45 Unicode hex code