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

13 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
continue, series, sequel
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
141 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 続 【ゾク】 sequel, second series
  • 続出 【ゾクシュツ】 appearing one after another, cropping up one after another, occurring in succession
  • 断続 【ダンゾク】 intermittence, being intermittent, occurring intermittently
  • 持続 【ジゾク】 continuation, persisting, lasting, sustaining, enduring
  • 続 【ゾク】 sequel, second series
  • 続日本紀 【ショクニホンギ】 Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Kun reading compounds

  • 続く 【つづく】 to continue, to last, to go on, to continue (without a break), to be unbroken, to occur again and again, to lead to, to connect to, to adjoin, to come after, to follow, to succeed, to rank next to, to hold out, to keep, to last
  • 続ける 【つづける】 to continue, to keep up, to keep on

Readings

Japanese names:
つぐ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu4
Korean:
sog

Spanish

  • continuación
  • serie
  • secuela
  • continuar
  • seguir

Portuguese

  • continuar
  • série
  • sequela
  • sequência

French

  • continuer
  • série
  • suite
456 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
563 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
536 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
214 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3544 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
548 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
821 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2334 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.17 Japanese for Busy People
243 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
243 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
211 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1539 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1722 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
921 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1244 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1357 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27533 Morohashi
1362 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4500 New Nelson (John Haig)
1345 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1445 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
400 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
609 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2757 2001 Kanji
6a7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-7 SKIP code
2491.2 Four corner code
1-34-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d9a Unicode hex code