Jisho

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18 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
weekday
On:
ヨウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
940 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 曜日 【ヨウビ】 day of the week
  • 曜霊 【ヨウレイ】 the sun
  • 晃曜 【コウヨウ】 dazzling brightness
  • 宿曜 【スクヨウ】 form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing

Readings

Japanese names:
てる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao4, yue4
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • día de la semana
  • brillar
  • resplandecer

Portuguese

  • dia útil

French

  • jour de la semaine
329 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
236 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
216 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
514 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2162 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
14 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
192 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2720 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
19 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
19 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
23 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
995 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1402 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
749 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1014 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
583 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14227P Morohashi
1096 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2522 New Nelson (John Haig)
576 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
618 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
240 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3875 2001 Kanji
4c14.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-14 SKIP code
6701.4 Four corner code
1-45-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66dc Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
Variants:
spirits, soul
Kun:
たま
On:
レイリョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1458 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 霊 【レイ】 soul, spirit, departed soul, ghost
  • 霊園 【レイエン】 (garden) cemetery, park-style cemetery, memorial park
  • 心霊 【シンレイ】 spirit (e.g. human spirit), soul, spirit, ghost, ethereal being
  • 英霊 【エイレイ】 spirits of war dead, person of great ability, soul of a talented person
  • 霊 【リョウ】 vengeful spirit, revengeful ghost
  • 霊異 【レイイ】 miracle, wonder, wondrous thing
  • 怨霊 【オンリョウ】 revengeful ghost, apparition
  • 新精霊 【アラショウリョウ】 spirit of someone on the first Obon after their death

Kun reading compounds

  • 魂 【たましい】 soul, spirit
  • 魂送り 【たまおくり】 sending off the spirits of the dead

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ling2
Korean:
ryeong

Spanish

  • espíritu
  • alma
  • dios

Portuguese

  • espíritos
  • alma
  • fantasmas

French

  • esprits
  • âmes
1923 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1361 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5056 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1299 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1891 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2390 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1168 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1225 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1688 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1867 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3480 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1793 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2442 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1808 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42309P Morohashi
2805 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6532 New Nelson (John Haig)
1791 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1930 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1815 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3174 2001 Kanji
8d7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-7 SKIP code
1010.2 Four corner code
1-46-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
970a Unicode hex code