Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
Variants:
lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)
Kun:
か.けるか.く
On:
ケツケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
860 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 欠 【ケツ】 lack, deficiency, vacancy, absence, non-attendance
  • 欠員 【ケツイン】 vacancy, vacant position
  • 補欠 【ホケツ】 filling a vacancy, supplementation, substitute, deputy, alternate, spare
  • 出欠 【シュッケツ】 attendance or absence
  • 欠缺 【ケンケツ】 lacuna, gap where something is lacked
  • 欠缺利札 【ケンケツリサツ】 invalid coupon
  • 阿毘羅吽欠 【アビラウンケン】 a-bi-ra-un-ken (mantra directed to Vairocana)

Kun reading compounds

  • 欠ける 【かける】 to chip, to be chipped, to break (off), to be damaged, to be missing (from a set, team, etc.), to be absent, to become lost, to be lacking (in), to be short (of), to be deficient, to be wanting (in), to wane (of the moon), to go into eclipse
  • 欠く 【かく】 to chip, to nick, to break, to crack, to lack
  • 欠くことができない 【かくことができない】 indispensable, essential, necessary

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian4
Korean:
heum, gam, gyeol

Spanish

  • falta
  • carestía
  • romperse
  • agrietarse
  • faltar
  • carecer

Portuguese

  • falta
  • intervalo
  • falha

French

  • manquer
  • lacune
  • rater
  • radical bâillement (no. 76)
597 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
496 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
471 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
968 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2412 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
713 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
647 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
383 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
384 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
659 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1119 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2481 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1255 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1721 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
477 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15991 Morohashi
1987 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2928 New Nelson (John Haig)
466 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
505 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
442 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2562 2001 Kanji
4j0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-2 SKIP code
4-4-4 SKIP code
2780.2 Four corner code
1-23-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b20 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
damage, loss, disadvantage, hurt, injure
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
807 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 損 【ソン】 loss, damage, harm, unprofitable, disadvantage, handicap, drawback, unfavorable
  • 損益 【ソンエキ】 profit and loss, advantage and disadvantage
  • 毀損 【キソン】 damage, injury, defamation, harm
  • 海損 【カイソン】 sea damage, average loss

Kun reading compounds

  • 損なう 【そこなう】 to harm, to hurt, to injure, to damage, to spoil, to mar, to ruin, to fail to do, to do amiss, to miss one's opportunity to do, to almost do, to come close to doing
  • 損なう 【そこなう】 to harm, to hurt, to injure, to damage, to spoil, to mar, to ruin, to fail to do, to do amiss, to miss one's opportunity to do, to almost do, to come close to doing
  • 損ねる 【そこねる】 to harm, to hurt, to injure, to wreck, to miss one's chance to (do something), to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sun3
Korean:
son

Spanish

  • pérdida
  • desaparición
  • desventaja
  • dañar
  • herir

Portuguese

  • prejuízo
  • perda
  • desvantagem
  • ferida
  • ferir

French

  • blesser
  • nuire
  • dommages
  • perte
837 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
768 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
745 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1070 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1979 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
449 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
581 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
350 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
351 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
396 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
922 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
801 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
468 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
596 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
673 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12459 Morohashi
651 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2255 New Nelson (John Haig)
666 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
719 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
780 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1361 2001 Kanji
3c10.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
5608.6 Four corner code
1-34-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
640d Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 金 【キン】 gold (metal), gold (color), gold (medal), first place (prize), something of great value, something golden (e.g. silence), money, gold coin, sum (of money), Friday, karat (measure of purity of gold), carat, metal (fourth phase of Wu Xing), Jin dynasty (of China; 1115-1234), Chin dynasty, Jurchen dynasty, gold general, testicles
  • 金色 【キンイロ】 gold (colour, color)
  • 集金 【シュウキン】 money collection
  • 納金 【ノウキン】 payment
  • 金色 【キンイロ】 gold (colour, color)
  • 金剛 【コンゴウ】 vajra (indestructible substance), diamond, adamantine, thunderbolt, Indra's weapon, Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth
  • 鬱金 【ウコン】 turmeric (Curcuma domestica)
  • 葛鬱金 【クズウコン】 arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea)
  • 漉油 【コシアブラ】 Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

Kun reading compounds

  • 金 【かね】 money, metal
  • 金持ち 【かねもち】 rich person, wealthy person
  • 細かい金 【こまかいかね】 small change
  • 汚れた金 【よごれたかね】 dirty money

Readings

Japanese names:
かん、 きむ、 こ、 この、 ん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jin1
Korean:
gim, geum

Spanish

  • oro
  • dinero
  • metal

Portuguese

  • ouro

French

  • or
16 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
18 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
14 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
59 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4815 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
18 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
94 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
664 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
23 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
23 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
21 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1808 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2552 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1302 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1771 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
275 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40152 Morohashi
2057 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6211 New Nelson (John Haig)
269 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
287 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
79 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
72 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2872 2001 Kanji
8a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
8010.9 Four corner code
1-22-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91d1 Unicode hex code