Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
creek, inlet, bay
Kun:
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
704 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 江 【コウ】 large river (esp. the Yangtze), Lake Biwa
  • 江上 【コウジョウ】 (on the) bank of a large river
  • 長江 【チョウコウ】 Yangtze River (China), Changjiang River
  • 三角江 【サンカクコウ】 estuary

Kun reading compounds

  • 江 【え】 inlet, bay
  • 縁 【えん】 fate, destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together), relationship (e.g. between two people), bond, link, connection, family ties, affinity, opportunity, chance (to meet someone and start a relationship), pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes), narrow open-air veranda
  • 堀江 【ほりえ】 canal
  • 松江 【まつえ】 Matsue (city in Shimane)

Readings

Japanese names:
くん、 とうみ、 み、 りえ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiang1
Korean:
gang

Spanish

  • gran río
  • ensenada
  • bahía

Portuguese

  • riacho
  • pequena baía em lagos
  • baía

French

  • baie
  • crique
  • anse
  • rivière
1244 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
517 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2491 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
994 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1458 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
252 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
821 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
840 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
905 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1160 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
257 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
162 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
141 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17140 Morohashi
221 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3045 New Nelson (John Haig)
139 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
148 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1085 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
372 2001 Kanji
3a3.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-3 SKIP code
3111.0 Four corner code
1-25-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c5f Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
third class, 3rd, 3rd calendar sign
Kun:
ひのえ
On:
ヘイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 丙 【ヘイ】 third rank, third class, third person (in a contract, etc.), third sign of the Chinese calendar
  • 丙寅 【ヒノエトラ】 Fire Tiger (3rd term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1926, 1986, 2046)
  • 甲乙丙 【コウオツヘイ】 A, B and C, first, second and third

Kun reading compounds

  • 丙 【へい】 third rank, third class, third person (in a contract, etc.), third sign of the Chinese calendar
  • 丙戌 【ひのえいぬ】 Fire Dog (23rd term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1946, 2006, 2066)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing3
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • tercera clase
  • tercer grado
  • tercero

Portuguese

  • terceira classe
  • 3º signo do calendário Chinês

French

  • troisième
  • signe du 3ème tronc céleste
1773 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2042 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
22 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1782 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1027 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
198 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
984 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1018 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1909 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
14 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4290 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2168 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2920 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1029 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35 Morohashi
3479 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
16 New Nelson (John Haig)
1020 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1096 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1037 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3153 2001 Kanji
0a5.21 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
1022.7 Four corner code
1-42-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e19 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 坤 【コン】 kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest)
  • 乾坤 【ケンコン】 heaven and earth, universe
  • 別乾坤 【ベッケンコン】 otherworld, another world

Kun reading compounds

  • 未申 【ひつじさる】 southwest

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kun1
Korean:
gon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1070 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
573 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4969 Morohashi
996 New Nelson (John Haig)
2184 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2300 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3b5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
4510.6 Four corner code
1-26-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5764 Unicode hex code