Jisho

×

帰

10 strokes
Radical:
turban, scarf 巾
Parts:
冖 刈 巾 ヨ
Variants:
歸 皈
homecoming, arrive at, lead to, result in
Kun:
かえ.る、 かえ.す、 おく.る、 とつ.ぐ
On:
キ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
504 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 帰還 【キカン】 return (home), repatriation, feedback (in an electronic circuit, biological system, etc.)
  • 帰化 【キカ】 naturalization, naturalisation
  • 社会復帰 【シャカイフッキ】 rehabilitation (in society)
  • 回帰 【カイキ】 return (to), revolution, recurrence, regression

Kun reading compounds

  • 帰る 【かえる】 to return, to come home, to go home, to go back, to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.), to get home, to get to home plate
  • 帰す 【かえす】 to send (someone) back, to send (someone) home

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gui1
Korean:
gwi, gwe

Spanish

  • regreso
  • vuelta
  • retorno
  • regresar
  • volver

Portuguese

  • Retôrno a casa
  • chegar em
  • conduzir-se
  • resultar

French

  • retour à la maison
  • arriver à
  • mener à
  • aboutir à
  • renvoyer
182 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
106 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
96 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
454 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1582 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
263 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
163 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1018 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.6 Japanese for Busy People
317 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
317 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
134 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
562 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
148 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
98 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
113 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1238 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8930 Morohashi
130 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1564 New Nelson (John Haig)
1230 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1316 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
265 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
191 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1244 2001 Kanji
2f8.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-8 SKIP code
1-1-9 SKIP code
2702.7 Four corner code
1-21-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e30 Unicode hex code

国

8 strokes
Radical:
enclosure 囗
Parts:
丶 囗 王
Variants:
國 圀
country
Kun:
くに
On:
コク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 国益 【コクエキ】 national interest
  • 国営 【コクエイ】 government management, state management
  • 最恵国 【サイケイコク】 most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN
  • 異国 【イコク】 foreign country

Kun reading compounds

  • 国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth
  • 国人 【こくじん】 indigenous person, inhabitant of a country, local, native, local lords and samurai, daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
  • お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
  • 現国 【うつしくに】 world of mankind, this world

Readings

Japanese names:
くな、 こ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2
Korean:
gug

Spanish

  • país

Portuguese

  • País
  • terra
  • nação

French

  • pays
79 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
136 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
123 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
8 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1037 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
111 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
36 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
745 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
40 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
40 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
151 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
344 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3831 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2659 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
588 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4752 Morohashi
3087 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
950 New Nelson (John Haig)
581 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
624 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
158 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3172 2001 Kanji
3s5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
6010.3 Four corner code
1-25-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56fd Unicode hex code

生

5 strokes
Radical:
life 生
Parts:
生
life, genuine, birth
Kun:
い.きる、 い.かす、 い.ける、 う.まれる、 うま.れる、 う.まれ、 うまれ、 う.む、 お.う、 は.える、 は.やす、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う
On:
セイ、 ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
  • 生育 【セイイク】 birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding
  • 回生 【カイセイ】 resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student
  • 公衆衛生 【コウシュウエイセイ】 public health, public hygiene, sanitation
  • 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
  • 生家 【セイカ】 house where one was born, one's parents' house
  • 殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal
  • 死生 【シセイ】 life and death

Kun reading compounds

  • 生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
  • 生きる糧 【いきるかて】 source of vitality, life sustenance
  • 生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
  • 生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
  • 生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
  • 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
  • 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
  • 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
  • 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
  • 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
  • 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
  • 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
  • 生う 【おう】 to grow (of plants), to spring up
  • 生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
  • 生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to let grow (e.g. weeds)
  • 生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
  • 生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up, uncoated metal
  • 死に生き 【しにいき】 death and life, death or life, death
  • 生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), raw, bareback, live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, blank (e.g. disk), unused, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory, cash, tipsiness
  • 生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
  • お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
  • 現ナマ 【げんナマ】 cold cash, hard cash
  • 生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
  • 生す 【なす】 to have a child
  • 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sheng1
Korean:
saeng

Spanish

  • vida
  • nacimiento
  • vivir
  • existir
  • nacer
  • dar a luz
  • puro
  • crudo

Portuguese

  • vida
  • genuína
  • nascimento

French

  • vie
  • naissance
  • authentique
  • cru
34 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
44 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
42 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
29 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2991 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
67 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
71 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
214 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
44 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
44 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
49 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1327 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4309 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2179 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2933 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1569 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21670 Morohashi
3497 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3715 New Nelson (John Haig)
1555 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1675 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
9 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
43 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2472 2001 Kanji
0a5.29 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
2510.0 Four corner code
1-32-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
751f Unicode hex code

徒

10 strokes
Radical:
step 彳
Parts:
土 彳 走
on foot, junior, emptiness, vanity, futility, uselessness, ephemeral thing, gang, set, party, people
Kun:
いたずら、 あだ
On:
ト
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
817 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 徒 【ト】 party, set, gang, company, person
  • 徒歩 【トホ】 walking, going on foot
  • 信徒 【シント】 layman, believer, adherent, follower, laity
  • 学徒 【ガクト】 student, follower, students and pupils

Kun reading compounds

  • 徒 【いたずら】 useless, vain, aimless, idle
  • いたずら書き 【いたずらがき】 scribbling, doodling, graffiti
  • 徒 【あだ】 vain, futile, transient, frivolous
  • 徒疎か 【あだおろそか】 making light of, disregarding

Readings

Japanese names:
かち
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tu2
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • caminar
  • inútil
  • compañero

Portuguese

  • júnior
  • vazio
  • vaidade
  • futilidade
  • inutilidade
  • coisa efêmera
  • gangue
  • conjunto
  • festa
  • pessoas

French

  • élève
  • inexpérimenté
  • vide
  • vanité
  • futilité
  • inutilité
  • chose éphémère
  • bande
  • parti
480 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
581 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
554 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
768 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1614 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
834 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
522 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1048 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
430 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
436 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
641 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
630 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
499 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
310 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
377 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
887 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10121 Morohashi
416 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1746 New Nelson (John Haig)
878 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
943 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
553 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2070 2001 Kanji
3i7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
7726.3 Four corner code
2428.1 Four corner code
1-37-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5f92 Unicode hex code