841 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
826 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
636 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1466 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
885 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
493 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
975 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
507 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
516 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
715 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
555 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3273 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1691 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2298 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1215 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
8759P | Morohashi |
2645 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1545 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1207 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1292 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
878 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
scroll, volume, book, part, roll up, wind up, tie, coil, counter for texts (or book scrolls)
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
944 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 巻 【カン】 volume (of book), reel (of film), scroll (of books or paintings), roll (paper, etc.)
- 巻末 【カンマツ】 end of a book
- 圧巻 【アッカン】 highlight, best part, stunning, incredible, spectacular, breathtaking, to stun, to amaze, to impress, to overwhelm (with emotion)
- 通巻 【ツウカン】 consecutive number of volumes, total number of volumes
- 巻雲 【ケンウン】 cirrus (cloud)
- 巻纓 【ケンエイ】 rolled tail (of a traditional Japanese hat), looped tail
- 席巻 【セッケン】 sweeping (over, across), conquering, overwhelming
Kun reading compounds
- 巻く 【まく】 to wind, to coil, to roll, to wear (e.g. turban, scarf), to envelope, to shroud, to outflank, to skirt, to link (verse), to move ahead (three hours, etc.), to move up
- 巻 【まき】 roll (e.g. of cloth), winding (e.g. watch), volume (of book), speeding up, heel (of a Japanese sandal)
- 巻き返し 【まきかえし】 rally, recovery, comeback, rollback, winding (thread, etc.)
- 絵巻 【えまき】 picture scroll
- 鉢巻 【はちまき】 headband
- 巻 【まき】 roll (e.g. of cloth), winding (e.g. watch), volume (of book), speeding up, heel (of a Japanese sandal)
- 巻き返し 【まきかえし】 rally, recovery, comeback, rollback, winding (thread, etc.)
- 絵巻 【えまき】 picture scroll
- 鉢巻 【はちまき】 headband
Readings
- Korean:
- gweon
Spanish
- enrollar
- rollo
- volumen
- tomo
- liar
Portuguese
- rolo
- volume
- livro
- parte
- enrolar
- laço
- mola
- sufixo para contagem de para textos (em livros)
French
- rouleau
- livre
- tome
- volume
- partie
- enrouler
- envelopper
- compteur de textes (manuscrits roulés)
1056 | 2001 Kanji |
0a9.11 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-6-3 | SKIP code |
4-9-2 | SKIP code |
9071.7 | Four corner code |
1-20-12 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5dfb | Unicode hex code |
土
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
307 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 土 【ド】 Saturday, earth, dirt, soil, land, lands, ground, earth (third of the five elements)
- 土地 【トチ】 plot of land, lot, soil, locality, region, place
- 浄土 【ジョウド】 pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha), (Buddhist) paradise, Pure Land Buddhism
- 郷土 【キョウド】 native place, birth-place, one's old home, province, region, locality
- 土 【ト】 Turkey
- 時計 【トケイ】 clock, watch, timepiece
- 下土 【カド】 lower world, this world, the earth
- 率土 【ソット】 ends of the earth, outer reaches, borderland
Kun reading compounds
- 土 【つち】 earth, soil, dirt, clay, mud, the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens), the ground, the land, low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud), (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
- 土方 【どかた】 construction worker, laborer (labourer), navvy
- 盛り土 【もりど】 embankment (for road, railway, etc.), raising the ground level, fill
- 赤土 【あかつち】 red clay, red earth, laterite, dark-red paint
Readings
- Japanese names:
- つく、 は、 ひじ
- Korean:
- to, du
Spanish
- suelo
- tierra
- Turquía
Portuguese
- solo
- terra
- chão
- Turquia
French
- sol
- terre
- terrain
- Turquie
17 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
19 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
60 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
316 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1050 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
19 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
37 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
42 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1.A | Japanese for Busy People |
24 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
24 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
22 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
347 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4211 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2127 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2875 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
152 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
4867 | Morohashi |
3403 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
966 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
150 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
161 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
360 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
22 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1472 | 2001 Kanji |
3b0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-3-2 | SKIP code |
4010.0 | Four corner code |
1-37-58 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
571f | Unicode hex code |
heavy, important, esteem, respect, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
193 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 重 【ジュウ】 jūbako, multi-tiered food box, heavy, serious, extreme, -fold, -ply
- 重圧 【ジュウアツ】 strong pressure, heavy pressure
- 九重 【ココノエ】 ninefold, imperial palace, the Court
- 加重 【カジュウ】 weighting (in averaging), aggravation
- 重複 【チョウフク】 duplication, repetition, overlapping, redundancy, restoration
- 重厚 【ジュウコウ】 profound, deep, grave, solid, dignified, stately, solemn, composed, substantial, massive
- 加重 【カジュウ】 weighting (in averaging), aggravation
- 九重 【ココノエ】 ninefold, imperial palace, the Court
Kun reading compounds
- 重 【え】 -fold, -ply
- 八重 【やえ】 multilayered, doubled
- 九重 【ここのえ】 ninefold, imperial palace, the Court
- 重い 【おもい】 heavy, weighty, heavy (feeling), depressed, gloomy, blue, uneasy, slow, sluggish, lumbering, ponderous, clumsy, important (position, responsibility, etc.), serious, grave, serious (punishment, illness, etc.), severe, critical, solid, established, dignified, sensible
- 重い腰を上げる 【おもいこしをあげる】 to get off one's backside, to bestir oneself
- 重り 【おもり】 weight, sinker
- 重ねる 【かさねる】 to pile up, to heap up, to stack up, to put on top of another, to repeat many times over, to go through repeatedly, to accumulate
- 重なる 【かさなる】 to be piled up, to lie on top of one another, to come one after another, to happen over and over, to pile up (e.g. stress), to accumulate, to overlap (each other), to occur at the same time, to happen simultaneously
- 主 【おも】 chief, main, principal, important, main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen)
- 重き 【おもき】 importance, emphasis, stress
- 身重 【みおも】 pregnant
- 気重 【きおも】 heavy-hearted
Readings
- Japanese names:
- さね、 しげ、 しげる
- Korean:
- jung
Spanish
- pesado
- importante
- apilar
- amontonar
Portuguese
- pesado
- empilhar
- pilha de caixas
- -dobrar
French
- lourd
- empiler
- entasser
- s'emboîter
- - couches
245 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
326 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
311 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
155 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
224 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
161 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
266 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
1017 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.16 | Japanese for Busy People |
227 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
227 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
115 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1802 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4390 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2223 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2991 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1691 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
40132 | Morohashi |
3573 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6207 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1675 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1805 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
136 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
330 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2272 | 2001 Kanji |
0a9.18 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-9-2 | SKIP code |
2-1-8 | SKIP code |
2010.4 | Four corner code |
1-29-37 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
91cd | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
102 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 来 【ライ】 next (year, spring, etc.), coming, since (e.g. last month), for (e.g. 20 years)
- 来客 【ライキャク】 visitor, caller
- 在来 【ザイライ】 pre-existing, already there, conventional
- 再来 【サイライ】 return, coming back, second coming (e.g. of Christ), second advent, reincarnation
Kun reading compounds
- 来る 【くる】 to come (spatially or temporally), to approach, to arrive, to come back, to do ... and come back, to come to be, to become, to get, to grow, to continue, to come from, to be caused by, to derive from, to come to (e.g. "when it comes to spinach ...")
- 来る年 【くるとし】 the coming year
- 来る 【きたる】 next (e.g. "next April"), forthcoming, coming, to come, to arrive, to be due to
- 来るべき 【きたるべき】 expected to arrive (occur) in the near future
- 来す 【きたす】 to cause, to induce, to bring about a result or state, to produce
- 来す 【きたす】 to cause, to induce, to bring about a result or state, to produce
- 来る 【きたる】 next (e.g. "next April"), forthcoming, coming, to come, to arrive, to be due to
- 来るべき 【きたるべき】 expected to arrive (occur) in the near future
- 来合わせる 【きあわせる】 to happen to come along
- 来掛かる 【きかかる】 to happen to come
- 不出来 【ふでき】 bad job, poor workmanship, bungle
- 行ってき 【いってき】 bye, see ya (afterwards), have fun, get going, now
- 来い 【こい】 come!, come on!
- 来し方 【きしかた】 the past
Readings
- Japanese names:
- くり、 くる、 ごろ、 さ
- Korean:
- rae
Spanish
- venir
- llegar
- acercarse
- aproximarse
Portuguese
- Vir
- devido
- próximo
- causa
- tornar-se
French
- venir
- dû à
- suivant
- causer
- devenir
147 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
237 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
217 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
113 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
202 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
25 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
62 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
538 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.5 | Japanese for Busy People |
69 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
69 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
133 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
36 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4366 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2211 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2975 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1902 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
14489 | Morohashi |
3551 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2565 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1884 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
2029 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
27 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
153 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1464 | 2001 Kanji |
0a7.6 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-7-3 | SKIP code |
5090.0 | Four corner code |
1-45-72 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
6765 | Unicode hex code |