Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
short, tiny
Parts:
infancy, childhood
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1227 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 幼 【ヨウ】 infancy, childhood, infant, child
  • 幼少 【ヨウショウ】 infancy, childhood, tender age
  • 長幼 【チョウヨウ】 young and old
  • 老幼 【ロウヨウ】 old and young

Kun reading compounds

  • 幼い 【おさない】 very young, little, childish, immature
  • 幼い頃 【おさないころ】 when one was a very young child, very early in one's life

Readings

Japanese names:
うぶ、 わか
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
you4
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • infancia
  • niñez
  • infantil
  • aniñado
  • inocente

Portuguese

  • infância

French

  • enfance
  • tendre enfance
996 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
985 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1099 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1495 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1334 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
505 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
428 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1229 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1293 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1099 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
578 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
222 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
140 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
168 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1390 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9193 Morohashi
191 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1599 New Nelson (John Haig)
1378 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1478 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
838 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2745 2001 Kanji
2g3.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-2 SKIP code
2472.7 Four corner code
1-45-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e7c Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
time, about, toward
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2015 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 頃 【ケイ】 qing (Chinese unit of land area equal to 100 mu)
  • 頃刻 【ケイコク】 short period
  • 万頃 【バンケイ】 vast expanse

Kun reading compounds

  • 頃 【ころ】 (approximate) time, around, about, toward, suitable time (or condition), time of year, season
  • 頃おい 【ころおい】 time, period, days
  • 幼い頃 【おさないころ】 when one was a very young child, very early in one's life
  • 間もない頃 【まもないころ】 in the early period (of something), at the beginning
  • 頃 【ころ】 (approximate) time, around, about, toward, suitable time (or condition), time of year, season
  • 今日この頃 【きょうこのごろ】 these days, nowadays, recently
  • 使い頃 【つかいごろ】 handy

Readings

Japanese names:
ころも
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing3, qing1
Korean:
gyeong, gyu

Spanish

  • tiempo
  • aproximadamente
  • hacia
  • sobre

Portuguese

French

  • temps
  • époque
  • environ
  • vers
1691 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
754 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1906 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1532 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
163 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
124 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
453 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43338 Morohashi
144 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6615 New Nelson (John Haig)
2791 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
479 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
291 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
9a2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-9 SKIP code
2178.6 Four corner code
1-26-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9803 Unicode hex code