| 1636 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 615 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2635 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 897 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 695 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1586 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3.14 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 378 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 379 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 205 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1225 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 746 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 445 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 560 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1203 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 17765 | Morohashi |
| 611 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3247 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1195 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1279 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1561 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
446 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 渡航 【トコウ】 voyage, passage, travelling
- 渡欧 【トオウ】 going to Europe, trip to Europe
- 過渡 【カト】 crossing, ferry, transient, changing old to new
- 譲渡 【ジョウト】 transfer, assignment, conveyance
Kun reading compounds
- 渡る 【わたる】 to cross over, to go across, to extend, to cover, to range, to span
- 渡る世間に鬼はない 【わたるせけんにおにはない】 all people aren't evil, don't distrust everyone, there is kindness to be found everywhere
- 渡す 【わたす】 to ferry across (e.g. a river), to carry across, to traverse, to lay across, to build across, to hand over, to hand in, to pass, to give, to transfer
Readings
- Japanese names:
- お、 たり、 わたな、 わたら、 わたり
- Korean:
- do
Spanish
- vadear
- cruzar
- pasar
- emigrar
- entregar
Portuguese
- transito
- vau
- balsa
- cruzar
- importar
- entregar
- diâmetro
- emigrar
French
- transit
- gué
- bac
- traversée
- import
- livrer
- diamètre
- migrer
| 367 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3a9.35 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-9 | SKIP code |
| 1-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 3014.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-47 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6e21 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
428 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 辺 【ヘン】 area, vicinity, region, side, edge, circumstances
- 辺境 【ヘンキョウ】 remote region, outlying district, border district, frontier
- 普遍 【フヘン】 universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent
- どの辺 【ドノヘン】 whereabouts, what part, how much, what point
Kun reading compounds
- 辺り 【あたり】 (in the) neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity, nearby, surroundings, around, about, or thereabouts, for instance, say, such as
- あたり一面 【あたりいちめん】 whole area, surrounding area, all around, everywhere, all over the place
- 御辺 【ごへん】 you
- 辺 【ほとり】 side (esp. of a waterbody), edge, bank, shore
- 片辺 【かたほとり】 corner, remote country place
Readings
- Japanese names:
- なべ
- Korean:
- byeon
Spanish
- alrededores
- límites
- vecindad
Portuguese
- arredores
- limite
- borda
- vizinhança
French
- environs
- frontière
- voisinage
| 713 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 608 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 580 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 696 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4661 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 270 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 947 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 179 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 775 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 789 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 962 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 676 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3761 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1916 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2607 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 290 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 38710P | Morohashi |
| 3029 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6011 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 284 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 302 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 455 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3545 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2q2.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-3-2 | SKIP code |
| 3730.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-42-53 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8fba | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
139 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 多 【タ】 multi-
- 多角 【タカク】 many-sided, versatile, polygonal, diversified
- 過多 【カタ】 excess, surplus, superabundance
- 最多 【サイタ】 most (numerous), largest (number of)
Kun reading compounds
- 多い 【おおい】 many, numerous, a lot, large amount of, large quantity of, a lot, much, frequent, common
- 大いに 【おおいに】 very, very much, greatly, considerably, highly, exceedingly, a great deal, a lot, to one's heart's content
Readings
- Korean:
- da
Spanish
- abundante
- mucho
Portuguese
- muitos
- frequentar
- muito
French
- beaucoup
- nombreux
- fréquent
| 108 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 180 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 163 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 161 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1169 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 181 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 39 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 347 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.8 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 229 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 229 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 104 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 405 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2694 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1372 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1858 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 110 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 5756 | Morohashi |
| 2170 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1127 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 108 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 113 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 128 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 129 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2560 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a6.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-3 | SKIP code |
| 3-3-3 | SKIP code |
| 2720.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-34-31 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 591a | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
925 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 恵雨 【ケイウ】 welcome rain
- 恵泉女学園大学 【ケイセンジョガクエンダイガク】 Keisen University
- 互恵 【ゴケイ】 reciprocity, mutual benefit
- 慈恵 【ジケイ】 mercy and love
- 恵 【エ】 wisdom, enlightenment, prajñā (one of the three divisions of the noble eightfold path), wisdom
- 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
- 悪知恵 【ワルヂエ】 craft, cunning, guile, serpentine wisdom
- 付け知恵 【ツケヂエ】 hint, suggestion
Kun reading compounds
- 恵む 【めぐむ】 to bless, to show mercy to, to give (money, etc.)
- 恵み 【めぐみ】 blessing, grace
- 恵みの雨 【めぐみのあめ】 welcome rain, merciful rain, blessed rain, rain after a long dry period
- 天の恵み 【てんのめぐみ】 God's gift, God's blessing, grace of God, godsend
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あや、 け、 さと、 さとし、 しげ、 へい、 み、 やす
- Korean:
- hye
Spanish
- favor
- bendición
- gracia
- bondad
- ser bondadoso
- favorecer
Portuguese
- favor
- benção
- graça
- gentileza
French
- bénéficier de
- faveur divine
- grâce
- gentillesse
| 1196 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 875 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1681 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1498 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 540 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1226 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1219 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1282 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1077 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 781 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3293 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1704 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2315 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 619 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 10618P | Morohashi |
| 2659 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1847 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 612 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 659 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1331 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1558 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4k6.16 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-6-4 | SKIP code |
| 5033.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-23-35 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6075 | Unicode hex code |
子
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
- 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
- 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
- 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
- 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
- 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
- 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
- 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
- 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs
Kun reading compounds
- 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
- 子 【こう】 child, interest
- 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
- 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
- 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
- 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
- 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
- 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
- Korean:
- ja
Spanish
- chiquillo
- niño
Portuguese
- criança
French
- enfant
- signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
- signe du Rat (zodiaque)
- 23 h à 01 h
- Nord (0°)
| 31 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 40 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 25 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 56 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1264 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 61 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 43 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 38 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.18 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 103 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 103 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 69 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 455 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4196 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2125 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2872 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 96 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 6930 | Morohashi |
| 3390 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1281 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 95 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 99 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 42 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 18 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3547 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2c0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-3-1 | SKIP code |
| 4-2-1 | SKIP code |
| 1740.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-50 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5b50 | Unicode hex code |