Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
spear, halberd
Parts:
ego, I, selfish, our, oneself
Kun:
われわ.が-わが-
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
829 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 我 【ガ】 obstinacy, atman, the self, the ego
  • 我慢 【ガマン】 endurance, patience, perseverance, bearing (with something), self-control, self-restraint
  • 無我 【ムガ】 selflessness, self-effacement, self-renunciation, anatta, anatman, doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls
  • 小我 【ショウガ】 the self, the ego

Kun reading compounds

  • 我 【われ】 I, me, oneself, you, prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
  • 我々 【われわれ】 we
  • 人は人、我は我 【ひとはひとわれはわれ】 live and let live, you do you and I'll do me, people are people; I am myself
  • 我 【われ】 I, me, oneself, you, prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
  • 我が 【わが】 my, our, one's own

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あが、 か
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wo3
Korean:
a

Spanish

  • yo
  • uno mismo
  • ego

Portuguese

  • ego
  • Eu
  • egoísta
  • nosso
  • a si próprio

French

  • ego
  • je
  • moi
  • égoïste
  • notre
  • soi-même
745 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
833 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
817 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1392 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
200 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
719 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1329 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
545 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1302 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1381 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1164 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
837 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4362 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2208 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2971 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
647 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11545 Morohashi
3548 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2028 New Nelson (John Haig)
640 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
690 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
380 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
848 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2259 2001 Kanji
0a7.10 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
4-7-4 SKIP code
2355.0 Four corner code
1-18-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6211 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
forget
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
1129 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 忘年会 【ボウネンカイ】 year-end party, "forget-the-year" party, bōnenkai
  • 忘却 【ボウキャク】 lapse of memory, forgetting completely, (consigning to) oblivion
  • 両忘 【リョウボウ】 detachment from dichotomies, detachment from objectivity and subjectivity
  • 備忘 【ビボウ】 reminder

Kun reading compounds

  • 忘れる 【わすれる】 to forget, to leave carelessly, to be forgetful of, to forget about, to forget (an article)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wang4, wang2
Korean:
mang

Spanish

  • olvidar
  • dejar atrás

Portuguese

  • Esquecer

French

  • oublier
986 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
974 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1095 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
291 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1004 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
528 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1374 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1461 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
209 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
772 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2529 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1285 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1753 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
603 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10333 Morohashi
2036 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1784 New Nelson (John Haig)
596 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
640 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
855 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
458 2001 Kanji
2j5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-5 SKIP code
0033.1 Four corner code
1-43-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5fd8 Unicode hex code