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

15 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
Variants:
comrade, fellow, people, companions
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1365 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 輩 【ハイ】 group, gang, bunch
  • 輩出 【ハイシュツ】 producing (people) in great numbers, appearing one after the other
  • 軽輩 【ケイハイ】 underling
  • 儕輩 【サイハイ】 colleagues, fellows, comrades

Kun reading compounds

  • 輩 【やから】 party (of people), set (of people), clan, family, fellow
  • 不逞の輩 【ふていのやから】 lawless people, gang, malcontents, recalcitrants
  • 輩 【ともがら】 comrade, fellow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei4
Korean:
bae

Spanish

  • camarada
  • compañero
  • colega
  • sucesivamente

Portuguese

  • camarada
  • companheiro
  • colega
  • pessoas

French

  • camarade
  • gens
  • compagnons
1688 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1544 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5086 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1451 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1801 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1037 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1078 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1166 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1780 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3482 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1795 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2444 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1652 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38398 Morohashi
2807 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5971 New Nelson (John Haig)
1637 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1765 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1808 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1255 2001 Kanji
7c8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-7 SKIP code
1150.6 Four corner code
1-39-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8f29 Unicode hex code