Jisho

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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 戎葵 【ジュウキ】 hollyhock
  • 戎器 【ジュウキ】 weapons of war, arms
  • 西戎 【セイジュウ】 Xirong, Rong, inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE), barbarians to the west
  • 東夷西戎 【トウイセイジュウ】 barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China)

Kun reading compounds

  • 夷 【えびす】 peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu), provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city), brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan), foreigner, barbarian
  • 恵比寿 【えびす】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 十日戎 【とおかえびす】 Tōka Ebisu, festival held on January 10 in honor of Ebisu, the god of fishing and commerce

Readings

Japanese names:
えび
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
rong2
Korean:
yung

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1798 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
321 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
11539 Morohashi
2024 New Nelson (John Haig)
4n2.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-2 SKIP code
5340.0 Four corner code
1-29-31 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
620e Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
hollyhock
Kun:
あおい
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2122 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 葵花 【キカ】 sunflower
  • 戎葵 【ジュウキ】 hollyhock
  • 黄蜀葵 【トロロアオイ】 sunset hibiscus (Hibiscus manihot)

Kun reading compounds

  • 葵 【あおい】 mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae), Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger)
  • アオイ科 【アオイか】 Malvaceae (family of mallows)
  • 布袋葵 【ほていあおい】 common water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes)
  • 天竺葵 【てんじくあおい】 geranium (Pelargonium inquinans)

Readings

Japanese names:
まもる、 け
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kui2
Korean:
gyu

Spanish

  • malva real
  • malva loca

Portuguese

French

3990 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1723 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2222 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2906 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1493 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2018 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31458X Morohashi
2317 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5120 New Nelson (John Haig)
2391 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2472 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k9.17 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
4443.0 Four corner code
1-16-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8475 Unicode hex code