Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
icicle, ice, hail, freeze, congeal
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1450 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 氷柱 【ツララ】 icicle, ice pillar (for cooling a room), ice
  • 氷山 【ヒョウザン】 iceberg
  • 海氷 【カイヒョウ】 sea ice
  • 解氷 【カイヒョウ】 a thaw

Kun reading compounds

  • 氷 【こおり】 ice, shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
  • 氷水 【こおりみず】 ice water, shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
  • 人造氷 【じんぞうこおり】 artificial ice
  • 雪氷 【せっぴょう】 snow and ice, snow ice, frozen snow
  • 氷 【ひ】 ice, hail
  • 氷柱 【つらら】 icicle, ice pillar (for cooling a room), ice
  • 薄ら氷 【うすらひ】 thin ice
  • 凍る 【こおる】 to freeze, to become frozen, to freeze over

Readings

Japanese names:
すい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing1
Korean:
bing

Spanish

  • hielo
  • congelado

Portuguese

  • estalactite
  • gelo
  • granizo
  • geada
  • congela

French

  • glace
  • glaçon
  • grêle
  • geler
  • congeler
498 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
401 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
378 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1222 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
131 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
820 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
662 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
140 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1206 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1269 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1095 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1153 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
43 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
24 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
25 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
133 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17087 Morohashi
39 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3032 New Nelson (John Haig)
131 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
138 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
259 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1142 2001 Kanji
3a1.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-3 SKIP code
4-5-3 SKIP code
3223.0 Four corner code
1-41-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c37 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
inflammation, flame, blaze
Kun:
ほのお
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1242 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 炎 【エン】 -itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)
  • 炎症 【エンショウ】 inflammation, irritation
  • 脳炎 【ノウエン】 brain inflammation, encephalitis, cerebritis
  • 胃炎 【イエン】 gastritis, gastric catarrh

Kun reading compounds

  • 炎 【ほのお】 flame, blaze, flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger), passion
  • 炎検出器 【ほのおけんしゅつき】 flame detector
  • 瞋恚の炎 【しんいのほのお】 intense antipathy (like a blazing fire), flames of rage
  • 嫉妬の炎 【しっとのほのお】 flames of jealousy

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
yeom

Spanish

  • quemar
  • llamarada
  • inflamación
  • flama

Portuguese

  • inflamação
  • chama
  • fogo

French

  • inflammation
  • flamme
  • incendie
1024 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1231 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2751 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1727 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1513 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
697 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1336 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1419 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1803 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1264 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3075 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1568 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2145 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18910 Morohashi
2420 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3404 New Nelson (John Haig)
162 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
174 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1207 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1162 2001 Kanji
4d4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
9080.9 Four corner code
1-17-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
708e Unicode hex code

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