| 791 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 709 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 682 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 815 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1947 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 710 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 577 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1314 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 933 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 960 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 773 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 900 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 606 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 367 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 459 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 741 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 12274X | Morohashi |
| 499 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2209 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 733 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 792 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 734 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
607 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 採決 【サイケツ】 vote, ballot, division
- 採掘 【サイクツ】 mining, digging, working (a mine)
- 伐採 【バッサイ】 felling timber, cutting down trees, logging, lumbering
- 掘採 【クッサイ】 mining
Kun reading compounds
- 採る 【とる】 to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.), to take (a measure, course of action, etc.), to decide on, to pick (e.g. flowers), to gather (e.g. mushrooms), to catch (e.g. insects), to extract (e.g. juice), to take (e.g. a sample), to assume (an attitude), to take on (workers, students), to employ, to hire, to draw in (e.g. water), to let in (e.g. light from a window)
- 採るべき道 【とるべきみち】 course of action
Readings
- Korean:
- chae
Spanish
- recoger
- recolectar
- seleccionar
- elegir
- recoger (fruta)
- adoptar (medida)
Portuguese
- escolher
- pegar
- trazer
- erguer
French
- cueillir
- prendre
- aller chercher
| 1364 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3c8.14 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 5209.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-26-46 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 63a1 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
527 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 光学 【コウガク】 optics
- 光栄 【コウエイ】 honour, honor, glory, privilege
- 脚光 【キャッコウ】 footlight, limelight
- 発光 【ハッコウ】 emission (of light), radiation (of light), luminescence
Kun reading compounds
- 光る 【ひかる】 to shine, to glitter, to be bright
- 光る棒 【ひかるぼう】 glowstick, neon light stick
- 光 【ひかり】 light, illumination, ray, beam, gleam, glow, happiness, hope, influence, power, vision, eyesight, optical fiber, optical fibre
- 光り輝く 【ひかりかがやく】 to shine, to glitter
- 越光 【こしひかり】 Koshihikari (variety of rice)
- 柔らかな光 【やわらかなひかり】 soft light
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あき、 あきら、 こお、 てる、 ひこ、 み、 みつ
- Korean:
- gwang
Spanish
- rayo
- luz
- paisaje
- honor
- brillar
- brillo
Portuguese
- raio
- luz
French
- rayon
- lumière
| 72 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 129 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 116 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 417 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1358 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 217 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 123 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 281 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 138 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 138 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 464 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 143 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3043 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1550 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2121 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 120 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 1350 | Morohashi |
| 2391 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 349 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 119 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 125 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 345 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 121 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1057 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3n3.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-4-2 | SKIP code |
| 2-3-3 | SKIP code |
| 9021.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-24-87 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5149 | Unicode hex code |