Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
plum
Kun:
うめ
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1232 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 梅雨 【ツユ】 (East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July), rain during the rainy season
  • 梅雨前線 【バイウゼンセン】 seasonal rain front
  • 松竹梅 【ショウチクバイ】 pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping), high, middle and low (ranking), top, middle and bottom, upper, medium, lower, first, second and third (class)
  • 紅梅 【コウバイ】 red-blossomed plum tree, red Japanese apricot

Kun reading compounds

  • 梅 【うめ】 Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), Japanese plum, ume, Chinese plum, lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
  • 梅干し 【うめぼし】 umeboshi, pickled dried ume, pickled dried plum
  • 青梅 【あおうめ】 unripe plum
  • 紅梅 【こうばい】 red-blossomed plum tree, red Japanese apricot

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei2
Korean:
mae

Spanish

  • ciruela
  • ciruelo

Portuguese

  • ameixa

French

  • prune
592 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1689 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1009 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2258 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1162 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1436 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1374 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1734 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1856 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
969 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1096 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1159 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
626 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
833 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
470 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14795P Morohashi
925 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2666 New Nelson (John Haig)
460 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
499 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
555 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1847 2001 Kanji
4a6.27 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
4895.7 Four corner code
1-39-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6885 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
广
Variants:
calendar, almanac
Kun:
こよみ
On:
レキリャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1765 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 暦 【コヨミ】 calendar, almanac
  • 暦年 【レキネン】 calendar year, civil year, time, year after year
  • 還暦 【カンレキ】 kanreki, one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
  • 改暦 【カイレキ】 calendar reform, adoption of a new calendar system, new calendar (for a new year), new year
  • 暦応 【リャクオウ】 Ryakuō era (of the Northern Court; 1338.8.28-1342.4.27), Rekiō era
  • 暦仁 【リャクニン】 Ryakunin era (1238.11.23-1239.2.7)
  • 永暦 【エイリャク】 Eiryaku era (1160.1.10-1161.9.4)
  • 康暦 【コウリャク】 Kōryaku era (of the Northern Court; 1379.3.22-1381.2.24)

Kun reading compounds

  • 暦 【こよみ】 calendar, almanac
  • 暦改正 【こよみかいせい】 calendar reform

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ryeog

Spanish

  • calendario
  • almanaque

Portuguese

  • calendário
  • almanaque

French

  • calendrier
  • almanach
1927 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1793 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
833 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1383 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1411 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2235 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1534 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1635 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1720 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
980 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3747 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1912 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2599 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
217 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14111P Morohashi
3018 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2507 New Nelson (John Haig)
213 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
226 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1707 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3378 2001 Kanji
2p12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-12 SKIP code
7126.9 Four corner code
1-46-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66a6 Unicode hex code