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

7 strokes
Radical:
shell
Parts:
Variants:
shellfish
Kun:
かい
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1787 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貝 【バイ】 Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica), Japanese ivory shell, spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)
  • 貝貨 【バイカ】 shell money
  • 越虫貝 【エッチュウバイ】 finely-striate buccinum (species of whelk, Buccinum striatissimum)
  • 蝦夷貝 【エゾバイ】 Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)

Kun reading compounds

  • 貝 【かい】 shellfish, seashell, shell
  • 貝殻 【かいがら】 seashell, shell
  • 魚介 【ぎょかい】 marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish
  • パウア貝 【パウアかい】 paua (edible New Zealand abalone; species Haliotis iris, H. australis, H. virginea)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei4
Korean:
pae

Spanish

  • concha

Portuguese

  • Marisco
  • conchas

French

  • coquillage
169 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
49 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
90 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1590 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4486 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
44 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
917 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
498 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
240 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
240 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
719 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1720 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3150 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1614 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2200 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
54 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36656 Morohashi
2543 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5766 New Nelson (John Haig)
54 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
56 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
70 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3961 2001 Kanji
7b0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-2 SKIP code
6080.0 Four corner code
1-19-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c9d Unicode hex code