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洋

9 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
并 汁 王 羊
ocean, sea, foreign, Western style
On:
ヨウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
763 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 洋 【ヨウ】 Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident), ocean, sea, foreign, Western, European
  • 洋画 【ヨウガ】 Western painting, Western film, Western movie
  • 南氷洋 【ナンヒョウヨウ】 Antarctic Ocean
  • 環太平洋 【カンタイヘイヨウ】 Pacific Rim

Readings

Japanese names:
なだ、 ひろ、 ひろし、 よ、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yang2
Korean:
yang

Spanish

  • océano
  • de estilo occidental
  • cada una de las dos mitades del mundo

Portuguese

  • oceano
  • estilo ocidental

French

  • océan
  • style occidental
526 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
427 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
404 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
366 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2550 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
305 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
209 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
822 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.4 Japanese for Busy People
289 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
289 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
917 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1193 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
468 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
292 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
353 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
555 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17363 Morohashi
392 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3130 New Nelson (John Haig)
549 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
588 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
411 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
348 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
355 2001 Kanji
3a6.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
3815.1 Four corner code
1-45-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d0b Unicode hex code

弓

3 strokes
Radical:
bow 弓
Parts:
弓
bow, bow (archery, violin)
Kun:
ゆみ
On:
キュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N1
1802 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 弓 【キュウ】 bow (and arrow), unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet), unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)
  • 弓矢 【ユミヤ】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 洋弓 【ヨウキュウ】 (Western) archery, Western-style bow
  • 鰓弓 【サイキュウ】 branchial arch, gill arch

Kun reading compounds

  • 弓 【ゆみ】 bow (weapon), archery, bow (for a violin, etc.)
  • 弓矢 【ゆみや】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 大弓 【だいきゅう】 bow, longbow
  • 上げ弓 【あげゆみ】 up-bow (technique used when playing a string instrument)

Readings

Japanese names:
こ、 ゆ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gong1
Korean:
gung

Spanish

  • arco

Portuguese

  • arquear
  • arco (arma
  • violino)

French

  • arc
  • archet
107 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
836 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1539 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1560 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1419 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1268 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
95 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
212 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
212 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
592 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
604 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4193 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2120 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2869 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1239 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9692 Morohashi
3383 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1678 New Nelson (John Haig)
1231 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1317 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
83 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3552 2001 Kanji
3h0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-4-1 SKIP code
1720.7 Four corner code
1772.7 Four corner code
1-21-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5f13 Unicode hex code