Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
whirlpool, eddy, vortex
Kun:
うず
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1789 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 渦中 【カチュウ】 vortex, maelstrom, whirlpool, (in the middle of a) scandal, controversy, quarrel, turmoil
  • 渦状 【カジョウ】 spiral
  • 冷水渦 【レイスイウズ】 cold eddy
  • 極渦 【キョクウズ】 polar vortex, polar cell

Kun reading compounds

  • 渦 【うず】 whirlpool, swirl, eddy, vortex, maelstrom
  • 渦巻き 【うずまき】 whirlpool, maelstrom, vortex, eddy, swirl, spiral (shape, pattern)
  • 冷水渦 【れいすいうず】 cold eddy
  • 暖水渦 【だんすいうず】 warm eddy

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wo1, guo1
Korean:
wa

Spanish

  • remolino de agua
  • vórtice

Portuguese

  • redemoinho
  • turbilhão

French

  • tourbillon
  • remous
  • vortex
1048 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1850 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2629 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1823 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1485 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1810 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1949 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1498 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1218 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
735 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
438 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
550 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1301 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17771 Morohashi
603 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3241 New Nelson (John Haig)
1292 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1387 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1558 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
349 2001 Kanji
3a9.36 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
3712.7 Four corner code
1-17-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e26 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
line, track
Kun:
すじ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
382 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 線 【セン】 line, stripe, stria, line (e.g. telephone line), wire, ray (e.g. X-ray), beam, line (e.g. of a railroad), track, route, lane, outline, contours, form, level, division, line (of action), position, approach, policy, principle, impression one leaves, air one gives off
  • 繊維 【センイ】 fibre, fiber, textile
  • 横線 【オウセン】 horizontal line
  • 赤外線 【セキガイセン】 infrared rays, infrared radiation

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian4
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • línea
  • cable
  • frontera
  • raíl
  • carril

Portuguese

  • linha
  • trilha

French

  • ligne
  • voie
447 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
176 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
329 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
247 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3580 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
389 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
826 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
299 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
299 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
841 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1551 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1760 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
944 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1273 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1351 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27641 Morohashi
1392 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4548 New Nelson (John Haig)
1339 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1438 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
236 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2742 2001 Kanji
6a9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
2693.2 Four corner code
1-32-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7dda Unicode hex code