Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
oneself 己 (巳, 已, 㔾)
Parts:
Variants:
fork in road, scene, arena, theater
Kun:
ちまた
On:
コウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2415 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 巷間 【コウカン】 on the street, around town, the world, the public
  • 巷説 【コウセツ】 gossip, talk about town
  • 陋巷 【ロウコウ】 narrow, dirty backstreet

Kun reading compounds

  • 巷 【ちまた】 the public, the street (e.g. "word on the street"), street, district, quarters, location (e.g. of a battle), scene (e.g. of carnage), divide (e.g. between life and death), fork (in a road), crossroads
  • 巷で話題 【ちまたでわだい】 much-talked-about, recently popular, in vogue
  • 悪の巷 【あくのちまた】 skid row, underworld
  • 修羅の巷 【しゅらのちまた】 scene of carnage

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiang4, hang4
Korean:
hang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1465 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
974 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3097 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2162 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
8756X Morohashi
1543 New Nelson (John Haig)
1956 2001 Kanji
3k6.17 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-5 SKIP code
4471.7 Four corner code
1-25-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5df7 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
discuss, talk
On:
ダン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
272 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 談 【ダン】 talk, story, conversation
  • 談合 【ダンゴウ】 bid rigging, collusion (on contract bidding), (illegal) price-fixing agreement, consultation, discussion, conference
  • 示談 【ジダン】 settlement out of court, private settlement
  • 講談 【コウダン】 storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery, story

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tan2
Korean:
dam

Spanish

  • conversar
  • hablar

Portuguese

  • discutir
  • conversar

French

  • discuter
  • parler
467 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
363 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
543 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
303 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4388 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
378 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
907 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2325 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
593 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
603 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
390 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1698 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1975 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1053 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1419 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
356 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35633 Morohashi
1569 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5643 New Nelson (John Haig)
350 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
374 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
394 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
433 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3062 2001 Kanji
7a8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-8 SKIP code
0968.9 Four corner code
1-35-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ac7 Unicode hex code