Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
old times, old things, old friend, former, ex-
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
549 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 旧 【キュウ】 old, former, ex-, the old, old things, old customs, old times, bygone days, Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar
  • 旧式 【キュウシキ】 old type, old style
  • 新旧 【シンキュウ】 new and old, incoming and outgoing
  • 懐旧 【カイキュウ】 reminiscence, nostalgia, thinking fondly of the past, recalling the old days

Kun reading compounds

  • 古い 【ふるい】 old, aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, timeworn, long, since long ago, time-honored, of the distant past, long-ago, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, corny, old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date
  • 元 【もと】 former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiu4
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • antiguo
  • viejo
  • viejos tiempos

Portuguese

  • tempos antigos
  • coisas antigas
  • amigo velho
  • ex-
  • anteriores

French

  • ancien temps
  • anciennes choses
  • ancien ami
  • ancien -
  • ex-
759 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
677 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
648 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
808 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
94 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
760 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
595 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
119 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1216 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1279 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1376 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
964 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
14 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
35 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13737 Morohashi
14 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2412 New Nelson (John Haig)
35 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
35 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
649 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1278 2001 Kanji
4c1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-4 SKIP code
2600.0 Four corner code
1-21-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
65e7 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
thumb, inch
Parts:
seal, closing
On:
フウホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1143 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 封 【フウ】 seal
  • 封鎖 【フウサ】 blockade, lockdown, sealing off (an area), freezing (funds)
  • 帯封 【オビフウ】 currency strap, banknote strap, currency band, money band, mailing wrapper (around a newspaper, etc.)
  • 液封 【エキフウ】 liquid seal, liquid ring
  • 封建的 【ホウケンテキ】 feudal, feudalistic
  • 封建主義 【ホウケンシュギ】 feudalism
  • 移封 【イホウ】 forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate
  • 旧封 【キュウホウ】 former fief

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
feng1
Korean:
bong

Spanish

  • sello
  • feudo
  • prevenir
  • sellar
  • cerrar

Portuguese

  • carimbo
  • fechamento

French

  • sceller
  • fermeture
1762 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1039 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1349 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1124 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
477 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
885 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1463 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1558 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
372 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
504 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1639 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
865 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1182 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
158 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7426 Morohashi
1287 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1376 New Nelson (John Haig)
156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
168 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1246 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1448 2001 Kanji
3b6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-3 SKIP code
4410.0 Four corner code
1-41-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c01 Unicode hex code