Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
tree, wood
Kun:
こ-
On:
ボクモク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
317 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 木刀 【ボクトウ】 wooden sword
  • 木偶 【デク】 wooden doll, wooden figure, puppet, blockhead, good-for-nothing, fool
  • 土木 【ドボク】 engineering works, civil engineering, public works
  • 名木 【メイボク】 old tree of historical interest, excellent wood, precious woods, choice wood
  • 木 【モク】 Thursday, wood (first of the five elements)
  • 木材 【モクザイ】 lumber, timber, wood
  • 水木 【スイモク】 Wednesday and Thursday
  • 火水木 【カスイモク】 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Kun reading compounds

  • 木 【き】 tree, shrub, bush, wood, timber, wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
  • 木々 【きぎ】 (many) trees, every tree, all kinds of trees
  • 本木 【もとき】 original stock
  • 青木 【あおき】 Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica), spotted laurel, lush, green tree

Readings

Japanese names:
ぐ、 も、 もと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu4
Korean:
mog, mo

Spanish

  • árbol
  • madera

Portuguese

  • árvore
  • madeira

French

  • arbre
  • bois (matière)
15 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
17 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
69 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
148 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2170 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
17 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
60 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
109 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
22 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
22 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
20 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1045 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4261 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2149 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2901 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
199 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14415 Morohashi
3450 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2531 New Nelson (John Haig)
195 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
207 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
255 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
36 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1864 2001 Kanji
4a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
4090.0 Four corner code
1-44-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6728 Unicode hex code

18 strokes
Radical:
right hand
Parts:
Variants:
plexus, clump of bushes, thicket
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2436 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 叢 【ソウ】 plexus, rete
  • 叢書 【ソウショ】 series (of publications), library (set of books)
  • 神経叢 【シンケイソウ】 nerve plexus
  • 頚神経叢 【ケイシンケイソウ】 cervical plexus

Kun reading compounds

  • 草むら 【くさむら】 the grass, grassy place (esp. with long dense grass)
  • 群がる 【むらがる】 to swarm, to gather
  • 群 【むら】 gathering
  • 群がる 【むらがる】 to swarm, to gather
  • 竹叢 【たかむら】 bamboo grove
  • 杉叢 【すぎむら】 thicket of cedar trees

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cong2
Korean:
chong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

144 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2778 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3243 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2277 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3220 Morohashi
2621 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
684 New Nelson (John Haig)
2895 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2904 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6e12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-13 SKIP code
2-11-7 SKIP code
3214.7 Four corner code
1-33-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53e2 Unicode hex code