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

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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:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 白沢 【ハクタク】 bai ze (mythical Chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ze2
Korean:
taeg, seog

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2704 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2453 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
958 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
18383 Morohashi
778 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3338 New Nelson (John Haig)
3a4.18 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-13 SKIP code
3614.1 Four corner code
1-63-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6fa4 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
falcon
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2224 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鷹隼 【ヨウシュン】 hawk and falcon

Kun reading compounds

  • 隼 【はやぶさ】 falcon (esp. the peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus)
  • ハヤブサ科 【ハヤブサか】 Falconidae (family of birds of prey)
  • 稚児隼 【ちごはやぶさ】 northern hobby (Falco subbuteo)
  • 白隼 【しろはやぶさ】 gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)

Readings

Japanese names:
はや
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhun3, sun3
Korean:
jun

Spanish

  • halcón

Portuguese

French

1230 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2259 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3427 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1766 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2404 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
41943 Morohashi
2756 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6493 New Nelson (John Haig)
2879 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2891 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8c2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-2 SKIP code
2040.1 Four corner code
1-40-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96bc Unicode hex code