279 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
188 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
172 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
863 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
53 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
828 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
189 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
983 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
2.15 | Japanese for Busy People |
470 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
478 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
92 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
974 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3841 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1972 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2668 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1084 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
13886 | Morohashi |
3097 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2450 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1075 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1156 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
184 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
1115 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 昼食 【チュウショク】 lunch, midday meal, food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
- 昼間 【ヒルマ】 daytime, during the day, time from sunrise until sunset, diurnal period
- 炎昼 【エンチュウ】 hot summer early afternoon
- 春昼 【シュンチュウ】 spring day (which seems long and quiet)
Kun reading compounds
- 昼 【ひる】 noon, midday, daytime, lunch
- 昼食 【ちゅうしょく】 lunch, midday meal, food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
- 小昼 【こひる】 just before noon, late-morning snack
- 夜昼 【よるひる】 day and night
Readings
- Korean:
- ju
Spanish
- día
- mediodía
Portuguese
- dia
- meio-dia
French
- journée
- midi
3772 | 2001 Kanji |
4c5.15 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-3-6 | SKIP code |
3-4-5 | SKIP code |
2-8-1 | SKIP code |
7710.6 | Four corner code |
1-35-75 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
663c | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鳶飛魚躍 【エンピギョヤク】 all of creation following their original natures, living and enjoying themselves freely, the kites fly and the fish leap, Heaven's will that all of creation shall follow their original natures and live freely, as a ruler's benevolence spreads, the people will find their places in the land based on their abilities
Kun reading compounds
- 鳶 【とび】 black kite (Milvus migrans), construction worker, scaffold erector, firefighter, fire hook, reddish brown, Inverness cape, filcher, sneak thief, pilferer
- 鳶色 【とびいろ】 reddish brown
- 赤鳶 【あかとび】 red kite (Milvus milvus)
- 糞鳶 【くそとび】 common buzzard (Buteo buteo)
- 鳶 【とび】 black kite (Milvus migrans), construction worker, scaffold erector, firefighter, fire hook, reddish brown, Inverness cape, filcher, sneak thief, pilferer
- 鳶足 【とんびあし】 sitting position similar to seiza (but with both legs splayed out slightly and one's backside resting directly on the ground)
- 昼鳶 【ひるとんび】 sneak thief, daytime prowler, pickpocketing
Readings
- Korean:
- yeon
Spanish
Portuguese
French
1559 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
2179 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
3919 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2727 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
46674 | Morohashi |
6938 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
2836 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
2851 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
11b3.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-3-11 | SKIP code |
4332.7 | Four corner code |
1-38-48 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
9cf6 | Unicode hex code |