Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
eternity, long, lengthy
Kun:
なが.い
On:
エイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
846 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 永久 【エイキュウ】 eternity, permanence, perpetuity, Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
  • 永遠 【エイエン】 eternity, perpetuity, permanence, immortality
  • 永々 【エイエイ】 forever
  • 大永 【タイエイ】 Taiei era (1521.8.23-1528.8.20)

Kun reading compounds

  • 長い 【ながい】 long (distance, length), long (time), protracted, prolonged
  • 長いこと 【ながいこと】 for a long time

Readings

Japanese names:
え、 と、 のり、 ひさ、 ひさし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yong3
Korean:
yeong

Spanish

  • eterno
  • infinito
  • perpetuo
  • largo
  • prolongado

Portuguese

  • eternidade
  • ambicionar

French

  • éternité
  • long
  • permanent
550 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
644 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
615 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
690 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
130 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
560 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
663 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
149 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1207 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1270 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1096 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1152 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2436 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1230 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1695 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
134 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17088 Morohashi
1937 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3031 New Nelson (John Haig)
132 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
139 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
646 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
342 2001 Kanji
3a1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-4 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
3023.2 Four corner code
1-17-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c38 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
power, force
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 劫 【コウ】 kalpa (eon, aeon), ko, position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones
  • 劫火 【ゴウカ】 world-destroying conflagration
  • 空劫 【クウコウ】 the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe)
  • 住劫 【ジュウコウ】 the kalpa of existence (the second aeon of the universe)
  • 劫 【コウ】 kalpa (eon, aeon), ko, position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones
  • 劫火 【ゴウカ】 world-destroying conflagration
  • 永劫 【エイゴウ】 eternity, perpetuity
  • 未来永劫 【ミライエイゴウ】 forevermore, for eternity
  • 劫掠 【キョウリャク】 pillage, plunder

Kun reading compounds

  • 脅かす 【おびやかす】 to intimidate, to frighten, to scare, to threaten (e.g. peace), to jeopardize, to endanger, to imperil

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jie2
Korean:
geob

Spanish

Portuguese

French

718 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1435 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1033 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2316 Morohashi
529 New Nelson (John Haig)
2857 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2872 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2g5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
4472.7 Four corner code
1-25-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
52ab Unicode hex code