Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things
Kun:
もと
On:
ホン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
10 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 本 【ホン】 book, volume, script, this, present, current, ... in question, ... at issue, main, head, principal, real, genuine, regular, proper, counter for long, cylindrical things, counter for films, TV shows, etc., counter for goals, home runs, etc., counter for telephone calls
  • 本位 【ホンイ】 standard, basis, principle
  • 社会資本 【シャカイシホン】 social capital, SOC
  • 配本 【ハイホン】 distribution of books

Kun reading compounds

  • 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
  • 本木 【もとき】 original stock
  • 大本 【おおもと】 root, origin, source, cause, basis, foundation, Ōmoto (religion)
  • 旗本 【はたもと】 shogunal vassal, direct retainer of a shogun

Readings

Japanese names:
まと、 ごう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ben3
Korean:
bon

Spanish

  • libro
  • origen
  • base
  • contador de cosas alargadas

Portuguese

  • livro
  • presente
  • real
  • verdadeiro
  • principal
  • sufixo p/ contagem De coisas longas

French

  • livre
  • présent
  • essentiel
  • origine
  • principal
  • réalité
  • vérité
  • compteur d'objets allongés
45 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
76 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
70 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
15 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
96 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
20 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
61 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
212 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
25 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
25 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
37 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1046 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4314 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2183 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2937 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
215 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14421 Morohashi
3502 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2536 New Nelson (John Haig)
211 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
224 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
47 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1855 2001 Kanji
0a5.25 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-3 SKIP code
5023.0 Four corner code
1-43-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
672c Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
cliff
Parts:
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
On:
ヤク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2123 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 厄 【ヤク】 misfortune, bad luck, evil, disaster, unlucky year, critical year, year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky
  • 厄年 【ヤクドシ】 unlucky year, critical year, year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō), bad year, annus horribilis
  • 災厄 【サイヤク】 calamity, disaster, accident
  • 大厄 【タイヤク】 calamity, disaster, great misfortune, grand climacteric

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
e4
Korean:
aeg

Spanish

  • desgracia
  • mala suerte
  • desastre
  • calamidad
  • abreviatura de año malo

Portuguese

  • infeliz
  • desgraça
  • sorte ruim
  • desaster

French

  • malchance
  • infortune
  • désastre
1859 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1915 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
816 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1829 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1116 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
68 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1341 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1424 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1721 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
257 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3665 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1870 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2550 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1427 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2893 Morohashi
2947 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
646 New Nelson (John Haig)
1415 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1519 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1026 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3356 2001 Kanji
2p2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
7121.2 Four corner code
1-44-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5384 Unicode hex code