Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
descendants, elder brother, insect
On:
コン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1688 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 昆虫 【コンチュウ】 insect, bug
  • 昆布 【コンブ】 kombu (usu. Saccharina japonica), konbu, kelp, any edible species from the family Laminariaceae
  • 後昆 【コウコン】 grandchildren, posterity

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kun1
Korean:
gon, hon

Spanish

  • descendientes

Portuguese

  • descendentes
  • irmão mais velho

French

  • descendant
  • frère ainé
  • insecte
1276 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1837 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2106 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1405 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
945 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1874 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2037 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1859 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
968 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3067 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1563 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2138 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
457 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13792 Morohashi
2413 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2430 New Nelson (John Haig)
448 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
483 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1188 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3856 2001 Kanji
4c4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
6011.1 Four corner code
6071.1 Four corner code
1-26-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6606 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
grandchild, descendants
Kun:
まご
On:
ソン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1388 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 孫 【ソン】 descendant (usu. of a certain generation), lineage, pedigree, grandchild
  • 孫悟空 【ソンゴクウ】 Sun Wukong (character in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West), Monkey King, Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
  • 愛孫 【アイソン】 one's beloved grandchild
  • 外孫 【ガイソン】 grandchild from a daughter married into another family

Kun reading compounds

  • 孫 【まご】 grandchild
  • 孫子 【まごこ】 children and grandchildren, posterity, descendants
  • 初孫 【ういまご】 first grandchild
  • 内孫 【ないそん】 child of one's heir

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sun1
Korean:
son

Spanish

  • nieto
  • descendientes

Portuguese

  • neto
  • descendentes

French

  • petits-enfants
  • descendants
458 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
565 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
538 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1356 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1273 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
644 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
457 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1540 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
910 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
932 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
448 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
463 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
492 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
305 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
370 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1405 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6987 Morohashi
410 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1296 New Nelson (John Haig)
1393 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1494 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
551 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3541 2001 Kanji
2c7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
1-2-7 SKIP code
1249.3 Four corner code
1-34-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b6b Unicode hex code