Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
foolish, folly, absurdity, stupid
Kun:
おろ.か
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1551 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 愚 【グ】 foolishness, silliness, stupidity, folly, I, me
  • 愚痴 【グチ】 idle complaint, grumble, moha (ignorance, folly)
  • 軽愚 【ケイグ】 moronity, moron
  • 大愚 【タイグ】 great folly or fool

Kun reading compounds

  • 愚か 【おろか】 foolish, stupid, silly
  • 愚かしい 【おろかしい】 foolish, stupid

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu2
Korean:
u

Spanish

  • estupidez
  • tontería
  • prefijo humilde para cosas propias

Portuguese

  • tolo
  • tolice
  • disparate
  • estúpidez

French

  • stupide
  • absurdité
  • idiot
  • bête
1184 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1884 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1730 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1496 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1308 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2032 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1642 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1755 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1701 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
793 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3513 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1813 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2467 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1976 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10946X Morohashi
2834 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1925 New Nelson (John Haig)
1957 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2107 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1623 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3658 2001 Kanji
4k9.15 The Kanji Dictionary
2-9-4 SKIP code
2-8-4 SKIP code
6033.2 Four corner code
1-22-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
611a Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
mother, do not 毋 (母, ⺟)
Parts:
mother
Kun:
はは
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
570 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 母国 【ボコク】 one's home country, one's homeland
  • 母校 【ボコウ】 alma mater
  • 養父母 【ヨウフボ】 adoptive parents
  • 空母 【クウボ】 aircraft carrier

Kun reading compounds

  • 母 【はは】 mother
  • 母親 【ははおや】 mother
  • 必要は発明の母 【ひつようははつめいのはは】 necessity is the mother of invention
  • 失敗は成功の母 【しっぱいはせいこうのはは】 failure is the mother of success
  • 母屋 【もや】 purlin (structural beam in a roof), purline, main building (of a manor), central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture)
  • 母屋桁 【もやげた】 purlin (structural beam in a roof), purline
  • 雲母 【うんも】 mica, isinglass
  • 乳母 【うば】 wet nurse, nursing mother

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu3
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • madre
  • base
  • cimientos

Portuguese

  • mãe
  • materno

French

  • maman
  • mère
137 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
222 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
203 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
554 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2466 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
89 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
65 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
326 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
112 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
112 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
74 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1143 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4287 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2165 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2917 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
102 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16723 Morohashi
3475 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3005 New Nelson (John Haig)
101 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
105 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
317 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
114 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3647 2001 Kanji
0a5.36 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
7750.0 Four corner code
1-42-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bcd Unicode hex code