Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
door, house 戶 (户, 戸)
Parts:
fan, folding fan
Kun:
おうぎ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1805 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 扇子 【センス】 folding fan
  • 扇形 【オウギガタ】 fan shape, sector
  • 換気扇 【カンキセン】 ventilation fan, extractor fan
  • 夏炉冬扇 【カロトウセン】 summer fires and winter fans, useless things

Kun reading compounds

  • 扇 【おうぎ】 folding fan
  • 扇形 【おうぎがた】 fan shape, sector
  • 舞扇 【まいおうぎ】 dancer's fan
  • 絵扇 【えおうぎ】 fan painted with a picture

Readings

Japanese names:
おう、 おおぎ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shan4, shan1
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • abanico
  • abanicar
  • agitar el aire
  • abanico plegable

Portuguese

  • Leque. Leque de dobrar

French

  • ventilateur
  • éventail
1492 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1442 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1823 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1430 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1333 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1156 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1555 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1657 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1733 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
845 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2449 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1239 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1704 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1088 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11743P Morohashi
1950 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2056 New Nelson (John Haig)
1079 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1160 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1337 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3053 2001 Kanji
4m6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-9 SKIP code
3-4-6 SKIP code
3022.7 Four corner code
1-32-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6247 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 椰子 【ヤシ】 palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
  • 椰胡 【ヤコ】 yehu (bowed Chinese instrument with a coconut-shell body)

Kun reading compounds

  • 椰子 【やし】 palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
  • 椰子鸚鵡 【やしおうむ】 palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), goliath cockatoo, great black cockatoo

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ye2, ye1
Korean:
ya

Spanish

  • cocotero

Portuguese

French

2292 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1891 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2121 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1285 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
698 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
932 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15069 Morohashi
2739 New Nelson (John Haig)
2524 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2584 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a8.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
4792.7 Four corner code
1-60-31 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6930 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
-こ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code