| 121 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 201 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 184 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 11 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 213 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 27 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 63 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 771 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 71 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 71 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 39 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1053 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4385 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2221 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2987 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 516 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 14499 | Morohashi |
| 3568 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2596 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 504 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 543 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 108 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 164 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
37 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 東欧 【トウオウ】 Eastern Europe
- 東亜 【トウア】 East Asia, the Orient
- 北北東 【ホクホクトウ】 north-northeast, north-north-east
- 東北東 【トウホクトウ】 east-northeast, ENE
Kun reading compounds
- 東 【ひがし】 east
- 東方 【とうほう】 eastern direction, the Orient, eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling)
- 犬が西向きゃ尾は東 【いぬがにしむきゃおはひがし】 that goes without saying, water is wet, when a dog turns west, its tail turns east
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あい、 あがり、 あずま、 あづま、 こち、 さき、 しの、 とお、 はる、 ひが、 もと
- Korean:
- dong
Spanish
- Este
Portuguese
- Oriente
French
- Est
| 1564 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a8.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-8-3 | SKIP code |
| 5090.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-76 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6771 | Unicode hex code |
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1995 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 胡散 【ウサン】 suspicious
- 胡散臭い 【ウサンクサイ】 suspicious-looking, shady, questionable, dubious, fishy
- 胡 【コ】 barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
- 胡椒 【コショウ】 pepper
- 柴胡 【サイコ】 Bupleurum root, Radix Bupleuri
- 京胡 【キョウコ】 jinghu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
- 誤魔化す 【ゴマカス】 to deceive, to cheat, to swindle, to falsify, to misrepresent, to lie about, to tamper with, to doctor, to cook, to evade (a question, taxes, etc.), to dodge, to gloss over (a mistake, fault, etc.), to smooth over, to get one's way out of (a difficult situation), to explain away, to embezzle, to pocket
- 胡麻 【ゴマ】 sesame seeds, sesame (Sesamum indicum)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- えびす、 くる
- Korean:
- ho
Spanish
- bárbaro
- extranjero
Portuguese
French
| 3753 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 879 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2206 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1467 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 623 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1057 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 29400 | Morohashi |
| 4792 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2470 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2537 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 4b5.12 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-5-4 | SKIP code |
| 4762.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-24-53 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 80e1 | Unicode hex code |