Jisho

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浜

10 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
一 ハ 汁 斤
Variants:
濱 濵
seacoast, beach, seashore
Kun:
はま
On:
ヒン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
645 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 浜堤 【ヒンテイ】 beach ridge
  • 海浜 【カイヒン】 seashore, seaside, beach
  • 京浜 【ケイヒン】 Tokyo and Yokohama

Kun reading compounds

  • 浜 【はま】 beach, seashore, captured pieces, captured stones, Yokohama, riverbank, riverside
  • 浜辺 【はまべ】 beach, foreshore
  • 白浜 【しらはま】 white sandy beach
  • 塩浜 【しおはま】 saltpan, field for drying salt

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bang1
Korean:
bin

Spanish

  • litoral
  • playa
  • zona costera
  • abreviatura de Yokohama

Portuguese

  • praia
  • costa

French

  • plage
  • rivage
1743 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
418 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2567 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
907 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1473 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1070 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
785 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
799 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
911 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1196 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
523 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
320 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
394 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1344 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17462 Morohashi
436 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3152 New Nelson (John Haig)
1332 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1430 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1358 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
361 2001 Kanji
3a7.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3218.1 Four corner code
1-41-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d5c Unicode hex code

萱

12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
一 宀 艾 日
Variants:
蕿 藼 蘐
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かや、 かんぞう
On:
ケン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2217 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 萱堂 【ケンドウ】 mother

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 萱鼠 【かやねずみ】 harvest mouse (Mus minutus)
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 雄刈萱 【おがるかや】 Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass)
  • 萱草 【かんぞう】 daylily (any flower of the family Hemerocallis), day lily

Readings

Japanese names:
か
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xuan1
Korean:
hweon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3989 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1730 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2904 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2016 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31345X Morohashi
5121 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k9.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
4410.6 Four corner code
1-19-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8431 Unicode hex code

草

9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
十 艾 日
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
Kun:
くさ、 くさ-、 -ぐさ
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
967 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 草 【ソウ】 draft, rough copy, highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters), grass style
  • 壮 【ソウ】 vibrancy, strength, bravery, manliness, one's prime (around age 30; esp. of a man), counter for cones or sticks of moxa burned on the skin (in moxibustion)
  • 除草 【ジョソウ】 weeding
  • 起草 【キソウ】 drafting (e.g. a bill), drawing up

Kun reading compounds

  • 草 【くさ】 grass, weed, herb, thatch, ninja, marijuana, cannabis, not genuine, substandard, LOL, haha
  • 草刈り 【くさかり】 mowing, mower
  • 水草 【みずくさ】 water plant, aquatic plant, waterweed, hydrophyte
  • 若草 【わかくさ】 green grass, young (fresh) grass

Readings

Japanese names:
そ、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao3
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • hierba
  • planta

Portuguese

  • grama
  • erva daninha
  • ervas
  • pasto
  • escrever
  • esboçar

French

  • herbe
  • mauvaise herbe
  • plantes
  • pâturage
  • écrire
  • ébauche
106 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
57 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
162 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
705 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3939 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
118 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
865 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
934 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
249 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
249 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
567 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
652 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2813 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1953 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
229 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30945P Morohashi
2263 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5032 New Nelson (John Haig)
224 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
238 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
77 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1955 2001 Kanji
3k6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4440.6 Four corner code
1-33-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8349 Unicode hex code