Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
willow
Kun:
やなぎ
On:
リュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1169 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 柳 【リュウ】 Chinese "Willow" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
  • 柳暗花明 【リュウアンカメイ】 beautiful scenery of spring, red-light district
  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 花柳 【カリュウ】 red-light district

Kun reading compounds

  • 柳 【やなぎ】 willow (any tree of genus Salix), weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
  • 柳刃包丁 【やなぎばぼうちょう】 kitchen knife for sashimi
  • 青柳 【あおやぎ】 green willow (i.e. one that has budded), meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
  • 化粧柳 【けしょうやなぎ】 chosenia (Chosenia arbutifolia)

Readings

Japanese names:
なぎ、 や、 やい、 やぎ、 やな、 やない
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
liu3
Korean:
ryu

Spanish

  • sauce
  • mimbre

Portuguese

  • salgueiro

French

  • saule
1898 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1104 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2233 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1471 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1427 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1105 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1871 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2032 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1854 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1086 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1115 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
607 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
803 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1434 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14662 Morohashi
899 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2629 New Nelson (John Haig)
1421 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1525 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1272 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1844 2001 Kanji
4a5.17 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-5 SKIP code
4792.0 Four corner code
1-44-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67f3 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
barrel, cask, keg
Kun:
たる
On:
ソン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1981 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 樽酒 【タルザケ】 sake that has been kept in a wooden cask, cask sake, barreled sake
  • 樽俎 【ソンソ】 (eating or drinking) party
  • 油樽 【アブラタル】 oil barrel, oil cask

Kun reading compounds

  • 樽 【たる】 cask, barrel
  • 樽柿 【たるがき】 persimmons mellowed in a sake cask
  • 油樽 【あぶらたる】 oil barrel, oil cask

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zun1
Korean:
jun

Spanish

  • tonel
  • barril
  • barrilete

Portuguese

French

1730 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2375 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1368 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
992 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15500X Morohashi
2875 New Nelson (John Haig)
2506 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2567 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1848 2001 Kanji
4a12.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-12 SKIP code
4894.6 Four corner code
1-35-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6a3d Unicode hex code