Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
pillow
Kun:
まくら
On:
チンシン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2084 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 枕籍 【チンセキ】 bedding, bed, to sleep together in the same bed, to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow, to sleep together using books as a pillow
  • 枕状溶岩 【マクラジョウヨウガン】 pillow lava
  • 開枕 【カイチン】 bringing out the pillows and futon (in Zen Buddhism), sleeping
  • 陶枕 【トウチン】 porcelain pillow (used in summer)

Kun reading compounds

  • 枕 【まくら】 pillow, bolster, introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story), lead-in
  • 枕絵 【まくらえ】 erotic picture
  • 新枕 【にいまくら】 bridal bed
  • 高枕 【たかまくら】 high pillow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhen3, zhen4
Korean:
chim

Spanish

  • almohada
  • prefacio a una frase o charla

Portuguese

French

2209 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1900 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
627 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
965 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1064 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
759 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14546 Morohashi
2589 New Nelson (John Haig)
2472 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2034 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1857 2001 Kanji
4a4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4491.2 Four corner code
1-43-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6795 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
strike, beat, kow tow, hit, thrash, criticize
2316 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 叩解 【コウカイ】 beating (in papermaking), refining
  • 叩首 【コウシュ】 kowtow

Kun reading compounds

  • 叩く 【たたく】 to strike, to hit, to beat, to knock, to pound, to bang, to slap, to spank, to tap, to pat, to clap (one's hands), to play (the drums), to attack, to bash, to criticize, to censure, to flame (on the Internet), to sound out (someone's views), to pound (meat or fish), to chop into small pieces, to beat down the price, to talk (big, bad, idly, etc.), to call, to invoke (e.g. a function)
  • 叩く 【はたく】 to dust, to remove dust, to slap, to hit (with the palm), to use up money

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kou4
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • golpe
  • ataque
  • golpear
  • atacar
  • apalear
  • criticar

Portuguese

French

876 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
208 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3238 Morohashi
696 New Nelson (John Haig)
2166 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2285 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-2 SKIP code
6702.0 Four corner code
1-35-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53e9 Unicode hex code