Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
vague, obscure, desert, wide
On:
バク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1611 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 漠 【バク】 vague, obscure, vast, boundless
  • 漠然 【バクゼン】 vague, obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous
  • 冥漠 【メイバク】 dim and distant
  • 空漠 【クウバク】 vast, boundless, vague

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mo4
Korean:
mag

Spanish

  • vago
  • incierto
  • vacío
  • desierto

Portuguese

  • vago
  • obscurecer
  • deserto
  • vasto

French

  • vague
  • obscur
  • désert
  • vaste
1700 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1789 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2649 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1496 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1853 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1427 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1516 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1159 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1236 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
804 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
469 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
598 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
235 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18149X Morohashi
655 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3268 New Nelson (John Haig)
230 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
245 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1641 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
363 2001 Kanji
3a10.18 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
3413.4 Four corner code
1-39-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f20 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
sort of thing, so, if so, in that case, well
Kun:
しかしか.りしか.し
On:
ゼンネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
401 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 然 【ゼン】 -like
  • 然諾 【ゼンダク】 consent, saying yes
  • 必然 【ヒツゼン】 inevitable, necessary, certain, sure, inevitability, necessity
  • 漠然 【バクゼン】 vague, obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous
  • 寂然 【セキゼン】 lonely, desolate, forlornness, desolation
  • 自然 【ジネン】 occurring naturally (without human influence)

Kun reading compounds

  • 然 【しか】 like that, as such, yeah, uh-huh
  • 然し 【しかし】 however, but
  • 然り 【しかり】 yes, yea, aye, affirmative, to be so
  • 然し 【しかし】 however, but
  • 而して 【そして】 and, and then, thus, and now, and finally
  • 然 【さ】 so, like that, in that way
  • 然らば 【さらば】 farewell, goodbye, adieu, if so, in that case, then, and (then)
  • 然然 【ささ】 such and such

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ran2
Korean:
yeon

Spanish

  • de esa forma
  • en ese caso

Portuguese

  • Tipos de objetos
  • assim
  • se assim
  • naquele caso
  • bem

French

  • un certain
  • si c'est comme ça
  • dans ce cas
  • suffixe adverbial
450 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
557 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
528 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
375 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2770 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
437 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
716 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1788 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
651 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
662 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
401 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1279 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3456 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1779 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2423 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
246 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19149 Morohashi
2782 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3435 New Nelson (John Haig)
241 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
256 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
144 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
592 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2540 2001 Kanji
4d8.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
2333.3 Four corner code
1-33-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7136 Unicode hex code