Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
song, sing
Kun:
うたうた.う
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
519 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 歌劇 【カゲキ】 opera
  • 歌曲 【カキョク】 melody, tune, song
  • 演歌 【エンカ】 enka, traditional-style Japanese popular ballad, troubadour
  • 和歌 【ワカ】 waka, classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

Kun reading compounds

  • 歌 【うた】 song, singing, classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka), modern poetry
  • 歌合 【うたあわせ】 poetry contest
  • 短歌 【たんか】 tanka, 31-mora Japanese poem
  • 替え歌 【かえうた】 parody (of a song), new lyrics to an old melody, song parody
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)
  • 歌うたい 【うたうたい】 singer, vocalist, nagauta singer (in kabuki), singer of noh chants

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ge1
Korean:
ga

Spanish

  • canción
  • cantar

Portuguese

  • canção
  • cantar

French

  • chanson
  • chanter
166 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
90 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
84 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
478 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2422 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
256 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
201 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2170 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.18 Japanese for Busy People
392 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
395 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
200 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1125 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2296 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1187 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1621 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
480 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16167 Morohashi
1825 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2945 New Nelson (John Haig)
469 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
508 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
486 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
230 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3162 2001 Kanji
4j10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-4 SKIP code
1768.2 Four corner code
1-18-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b4c Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
hermit, wizard, cent
On:
センセント
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1157 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 仙 【セン】 hermit, wizard, wizardry
  • 仙 【セント】 cent (monetary unit)
  • 水仙 【スイセン】 daffodil (esp. Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis), narcissus
  • 黄水仙 【キズイセン】 jonquil (Narcissus jonquilla)
  • 仙 【セント】 cent (monetary unit)
  • 仙洞御所 【セントウゴショ】 palace of a retired emperor

Readings

Japanese names:
そま、 のり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian1
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • ermitaño

Portuguese

  • Eremita
  • mago
  • centavo

French

  • ermite
  • magicien
  • centime
  • sacrum
1490 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1025 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
359 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1959 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1036 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
228 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1891 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2064 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1880 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
59 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
36 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
20 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
20 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
995 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
374 Morohashi
32 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
120 New Nelson (John Haig)
986 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1061 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1038 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2176 2001 Kanji
2a3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-3 SKIP code
2227.0 Four corner code
1-32-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4ed9 Unicode hex code