| 382 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 488 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 464 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 652 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2305 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 597 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 639 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1896 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 336 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 336 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 679 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1100 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1243 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 695 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 900 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1922 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 15181 | Morohashi |
| 1017 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2753 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1903 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2052 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 311 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 584 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
poles, settlement, conclusion, end, highest rank, electric poles, very, extremely, most, highly, 10**48
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
460 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 極 【キョク】 pole, climax, extreme, extremity, culmination, height, zenith, nadir
- 極右 【キョクウ】 far right (in politics), extreme right, ultraconservative
- 消極 【ショウキョク】 passive, negative, conservative, depolarization
- 対極 【タイキョク】 antipodes, other (opposite) extreme, opposite, antithesis
- 極 【ゴク】 quite, very, 10^48, quindecillion
- 極秘 【ゴクヒ】 absolute secrecy
- 極々 【ゴクゴク】 extremely, highly
- 失礼至極 【シツレイシゴク】 extremely rude, impertinent, impolite
Kun reading compounds
- 極める 【きわめる】 to carry to extremes, to go to the end of something, to reach the limits of something, to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc), to be extremely (e.g. busy), to exhaust completely, to have nothing left (e.g. to say)
- 極まる 【きわまる】 to reach an extreme, to reach a limit, to terminate, to come to an end, extremely, to be stuck, to be in a dilemma, to be at a loss, to be decided, to be settled
- 極まり 【きわまり】 extremity, end, bound, limit
- 極まりない 【きわまりない】 extremely, in the extreme, knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness), unparalleled, boundless (e.g. universe, ocean), limitless
- 極み 【きわみ】 height, acme, extremity, peak, end, limit
- 決める 【きめる】 to decide, to choose, to determine, to make up one's mind, to resolve, to set one's heart on, to settle, to arrange, to set, to appoint, to fix, to clinch (a victory), to decide (the outcome of a match), to persist in doing, to go through with, to always do, to have made a habit of, to take for granted, to assume, to dress up, to dress to kill, to dress to the nines, to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.), to succeed in doing, to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.), to eat or drink something, to take illegal drugs
- 決まる 【きまる】 to be decided, to be settled, to be fixed, to be arranged, to be unchanging, to be the same (as always), to be fixed, to be set, to be a fixed rule, to be destined, to be a convention, to be a custom, to be common knowledge, to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.), to go well, to succeed, to connect (of a punch), to look good (of clothing), to look sharp, to be stylish, to suit one, to be held in place (of a hairdo), to be struck and held (of a pose in kabuki)
Readings
- Korean:
- geug
Spanish
- polo terrestre o magnético
- muy
- sumamente
- extremadamente
- alcanzar un extremo
Portuguese
- postes
- acordo
- conclusão
- fim
- a mais alta posição
- postes elétricos
- muitos
- extremamente
- maior
- altamente
- 10 elevado a48
French
- extrêmes
- pôles (N et S)
- décision
- conclusion
- fin
- plus haut rang
- pôles électriques
- très
- extrêmement
- le plus
- hautement
- 10**48
| 1872 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4a8.11 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-8 | SKIP code |
| 4191.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-22-43 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6975 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
373 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 楽 【ガク】 music, old Japanese court music, gagaku
- 楽章 【ガクショウ】 movement
- 邦楽 【ホウガク】 Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)
- 室内楽 【シツナイガク】 chamber music
- 楽 【ラク】 comfort, ease, relief, (at) peace, relaxation, easy, simple, without trouble, without hardships, (economically) comfortable, raku pottery, sukha (happiness)
- 楽園 【ラクエン】 paradise, Eden
- 千秋楽 【センシュウラク】 final day of a performance, closing date, final show, final day of a tournament
- 行楽 【コウラク】 outing, excursion, pleasure trip, going on a picnic
- 猿楽 【サルガク】 sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries), noh, fooling around
Kun reading compounds
- 楽しい 【たのしい】 enjoyable, fun, pleasant, happy, delightful
- 楽しい思い出 【たのしいおもいで】 happy memory, sweet memory
- 楽しむ 【たのしむ】 to enjoy, to take pleasure in, to have a good time, to have fun, to look forward to
Readings
- Japanese names:
- さ、 た、 やす、 ら
- Korean:
- ag
Spanish
- música
- divertido
- fácil
- agradable
- disfrutar
- divertirse
Portuguese
- música
- conforto
- facilidade
French
- musique
- agréable
- confort
| 331 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 98 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 218 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 232 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2324 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 322 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 200 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2029 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 358 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 359 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 343 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1064 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3505 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1808 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2460 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1751 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 15213 | Morohashi |
| 2826 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2790 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1735 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1872 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 481 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 225 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 364 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4a9.29 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-9-4 | SKIP code |
| 3290.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-19-58 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 697d | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1383 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 浄化槽 【ジョウカソウ】 water-purification tank, septic tank
- 浄化 【ジョウカ】 purification, cleanup (e.g. of politics), purge
- 自浄 【ジジョウ】 self-purification, self-cleansing
- 不浄 【フジョウ】 unclean, dirty, impure, bathroom, toilet (room), menstruation, menses, feces, faeces
Kun reading compounds
- 清める 【きよめる】 to purify, to cleanse, to exorcise, to purge, to ward off
- 清い 【きよい】 clean, clear, pure, honest, clean, innocent, platonic, chaste
Readings
- Korean:
- jeong
Spanish
- puro
- inocente
Portuguese
- limpar
- purificar
- limpeza
- exorcisar
- Disnastia Manchu
French
- nettoyer
- laver
- purifier
- dynastie Mandchoue
| 1417 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1559 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2548 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 976 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1472 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 823 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 664 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 675 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1495 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1187 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 457 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 282 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 342 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1163 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 17451 | Morohashi |
| 382 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3128 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1155 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1239 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1274 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 347 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3a6.18 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-6 | SKIP code |
| 3715.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-30-84 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6d44 | Unicode hex code |
土
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
307 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 土 【ド】 Saturday, earth, dirt, soil, land, lands, ground, earth (third of the five elements)
- 土地 【トチ】 plot of land, lot, soil, locality, region, place
- 浄土 【ジョウド】 pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha), (Buddhist) paradise, Pure Land Buddhism
- 郷土 【キョウド】 native place, birth-place, one's old home, province, region, locality
- 土 【ト】 Turkey
- 時計 【トケイ】 clock, watch, timepiece
- 下土 【カド】 lower world, this world, the earth
- 率土 【ソット】 ends of the earth, outer reaches, borderland
Kun reading compounds
- 土 【つち】 earth, soil, dirt, clay, mud, the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens), the ground, the land, low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud), (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
- 土方 【どかた】 construction worker, laborer (labourer), navvy
- 盛り土 【もりど】 embankment (for road, railway, etc.), raising the ground level, fill
- 赤土 【あかつち】 red clay, red earth, laterite, dark-red paint
Readings
- Japanese names:
- つく、 は、 ひじ
- Korean:
- to, du
Spanish
- suelo
- tierra
- Turquía
Portuguese
- solo
- terra
- chão
- Turquia
French
- sol
- terre
- terrain
- Turquie
| 17 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 19 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 60 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 316 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1050 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 19 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 37 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 42 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1.A | Japanese for Busy People |
| 24 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 24 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 22 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 347 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4211 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2127 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2875 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 152 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 4867 | Morohashi |
| 3403 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 966 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 150 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 161 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 360 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 22 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1472 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3b0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-3-2 | SKIP code |
| 4010.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-58 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 571f | Unicode hex code |