Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
clear (the land), open, break up (land)
Kun:
ひら.く
On:
タク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1526 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 拓殖 【タクショク】 colonization, colonisation, development, settlement, exploitation
  • 拓銀 【タクギン】 Takushoku Bank
  • 干拓 【カンタク】 land reclamation (from sea)
  • 未開拓 【ミカイタク】 undeveloped (area), unexplored (field of study), wild (areas), untapped area

Kun reading compounds

  • 拓く 【ひらく】 to open (e.g. path), to clear (the way), to break up (e.g. land)

Readings

Japanese names:
つ、 ひろ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tuo4, ta4
Korean:
cheog, tag

Spanish

  • aclarar
  • despejar la tierra
  • calcar

Portuguese

  • limpar (a terra)
  • abrir
  • abrir (terra)

French

  • défricher
  • conquête (terrain)
1554 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1415 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1873 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1780 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1349 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
586 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1833 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1983 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1263 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
876 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
375 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
237 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
282 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
658 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11958 Morohashi
317 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2115 New Nelson (John Haig)
651 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
703 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1181 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1377 2001 Kanji
3c5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
5106.0 Four corner code
1-34-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62d3 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 跋 【バツ】 epilogue, postscript, envoi
  • 跋文 【バツブン】 afterword, epilogue, postscript

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ba2
Korean:
bal

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4553 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
37446 Morohashi
5867 New Nelson (John Haig)
7d5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-5 SKIP code
6314.4 Four corner code
1-76-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8dcb Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 翳 【サシハ】 large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.
  • 黒影 【コクエイ】 silhouette, dark shadow
  • 暗影 【アンエイ】 shadow, gloom

Kun reading compounds

  • 陰 【かげ】 shade, shadow, behind (something), other side, back, the background, behind the scenes, behind someone's back, gloom (in someone's expression, nature, etc.), darkness
  • 陰り 【かげり】 shadow (e.g. on someone's happiness), cloud, shade, gloom
  • 陰る 【かげる】 to become clouded, to darken, to get dark, to become hidden (behind clouds), to darken (of a face), to worsen, to deteriorate, to become gloomy
  • 翳す 【かざす】 to hold up over one's head, to hold aloft, to hold over something, to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire), to cover something with something, to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
ye

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3679 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3567 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
28796 Morohashi
2874 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4691 New Nelson (John Haig)
2t15.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-11-6 SKIP code
1-10-7 SKIP code
7722.7 Four corner code
7712.7 Four corner code
1-70-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7ff3 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 槐樹 【カイジュ】 Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)

Kun reading compounds

  • 槐 【えんじゅ】 Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)
  • 針槐 【はりえんじゅ】 black locust, robinia pseudoacacia

Readings

Japanese names:
えんじ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huai2
Korean:
goe

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2296 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
15323 Morohashi
2803 New Nelson (John Haig)
4a10.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
4691.3 Four corner code
1-60-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
69d0 Unicode hex code