Jisho

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漸

14 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
汁 斤 車
steadily, gradually advancing, finally, barely
Kun:
ようや.く、 やや、 ようよ.う、 すす.む
On:
ゼン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2115 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 漸 【ゼン】 gradual progress
  • 漸減 【ゼンゲン】 gradual decrease, decline
  • 西漸 【セイゼン】 westward advance
  • 東漸 【トウゼン】 eastward advance

Kun reading compounds

  • 漸く 【ようやく】 finally, at last, barely, narrowly, hardly, only just, gradually, little by little, by degrees
  • 稍 【やや】 a little, partially, somewhat, slightly, semi-, -ish, on the ... side, a short time, a while
  • 漸う 【ようよう】 finally, barely, narrowly, hardly, only just, gradually, little by little, by degrees

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian4, jian1
Korean:
jeom, cham

Spanish

  • gradualmente
  • firmemente

Portuguese

  • firmemente
  • gradualmente avançando
  • finalmente
  • raramente

French

  • progressivement
  • en fin de compte
  • finalement
  • tout juste
1503 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1867 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2680 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1184 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1499 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2081 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1400 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1489 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1503 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1242 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
867 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
500 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
641 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1144 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18179 Morohashi
706 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3305 New Nelson (John Haig)
1135 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1217 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1712 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
354 2001 Kanji
3a11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
3212.1 Four corner code
1-33-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f38 Unicode hex code

近

7 strokes (also 6)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
込 斤
near, early, akin, tantamount
Kun:
ちか.い
On:
キン、 コン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
194 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 近畿 【キンキ】 Kinki (region around Osaka, Kyoto, Nara)
  • 近海 【キンカイ】 coastal waters, adjacent seas
  • ごく最近 【ゴクサイキン】 very recently, in the very recent past
  • 至近 【シキン】 very near
  • 近流 【コンル】 banishment (to a nearby province), the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryō system

Kun reading compounds

  • 近い 【ちかい】 near, close, short (distance), close (in time), soon, close (relationship), friendly, intimate, closely related, similar, almost the same, close to, nearly
  • 近いうちに 【ちかいうちに】 soon, shortly, before long

Readings

Japanese names:
おう、 おお、 この
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jin4
Korean:
geun

Spanish

  • cerca
  • cercano

Portuguese

  • perto
  • cedo
  • consangüíneo
  • equivalente

French

  • près
  • tôt
  • proche
  • équivalent à
195 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
113 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
103 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
127 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4671 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
127 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
259 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
506 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.12 Japanese for Busy People
445 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
452 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
109 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
679 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3798 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1941 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2634 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1136 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38752P Morohashi
3061 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6021 New Nelson (John Haig)
1129 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1210 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
149 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
140 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2654 2001 Kanji
2q4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-4 SKIP code
3-2-4 SKIP code
3230.2 Four corner code
1-22-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8fd1 Unicode hex code

展

10 strokes
Radical:
corpse 尸
Parts:
一 ｜ 二 尸 衣
unfold, expand
On:
テン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
352 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 展 【テン】 exhibition, exhibit
  • 展開 【テンカイ】 development, evolution, progression, unfolding, (plot) twist, expansion, spreading out, extending, deployment, building up, expansion (of an algebraic expression), development (of a three-dimensional shape), extraction (of compressed data), decompression, unpacking
  • 個展 【コテン】 solo exhibition, one-man exhibition, one-woman exhibition
  • 巡回展 【ジュンカイテン】 roadshow, touring exhibition, travelling exhibition

Readings

Japanese names:
のぶ、 のり、 ひろ、 ゆき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhan3
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

  • desplegar
  • expandir
  • exhibir

Portuguese

  • desdobrar
  • expandir

French

  • développement
  • déploiement
847 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
955 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
944 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
431 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1396 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
501 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
485 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1501 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1129 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1181 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1092 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
531 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3862 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1984 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2681 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1944 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7715 Morohashi
3111 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1425 New Nelson (John Haig)
1925 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2075 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
443 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
909 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3765 2001 Kanji
3r7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
7723.2 Four corner code
1-37-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c55 Unicode hex code

開

12 strokes
Radical:
gate 門
Parts:
一 ノ 二 廾 門
Variants:
open, unfold, unseal
Kun:
ひら.く、 ひら.き、 -びら.き、 ひら.ける、 あ.く、 あ.ける
On:
カイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
59 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 開花 【カイカ】 flowering, blooming, blossoming, coming into bloom, flowering (of a civilization, talent, etc.), blossoming, blooming, bearing fruit (of efforts)
  • 開演 【カイエン】 curtain raising, starting (e.g. play, concert)
  • 疎開 【ソカイ】 evacuation (to the country), spreading out (troops), deployment, dispersal
  • 非公開 【ヒコウカイ】 private, non-public, secret, closed-door, closed

Kun reading compounds

  • 開く 【ひらく】 to open, to undo, to unseal, to unpack, to bloom, to unfold, to spread out, to open (for business, e.g. in the morning), to be wide (gap, etc.), to widen, to hold (meeting, party, etc.), to give, to open, to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.), to open (a new business), to set up, to establish, to start, to open (ports, borders, etc.), to open (an account), to open up (new land, path, etc.), to clear, to develop, to open (a file, etc.), to extract (root), to reduce (equation), to cut open (fish), to change (kanji into hiragana), to flare (e.g. skirt), to slacken (into a poor posture)
  • 開き 【ひらき】 opening, gap, dried and opened fish
  • 開き直る 【ひらきなおる】 to become defiant, to fight back, to turn upon, to take the offensive
  • 開ける 【ひらける】 to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.), to spread out, to become clear (of a road, visibility, etc.), to open up, to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.), to get better, to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.), to become civilized, to modernize, to grow, to advance (of knowledge, ideas, etc.), to be sensible, to be understanding, to be enlightened, to open (of a new road, railway, etc.), to be opened to traffic, to become populous, to become densely built, to become bustling
  • 開く 【あく】 to open (e.g. doors), to open (e.g. business, etc.), to be empty, to be vacant, to be available, to be free, to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.), to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to come to an end, to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to have a hole, to form a gap, to have an interval (between events)
  • 開ける 【あける】 to open (a door, etc.), to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package), to unlock, to open (for business, etc.), to empty, to remove, to make space, to make room, to move out, to clear out, to be away from (e.g. one's house), to leave (temporarily), to dawn, to grow light, to end (of a period, season), to begin (of the New Year), to leave (one's schedule) open, to make time (for), to make (a hole), to open up (a hole)

Readings

Japanese names:
はる、 か、 ひらき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kai1
Korean:
gae

Spanish

  • abrir
  • desdoblar
  • dar comienzo
  • abrirse
  • estar abierto

Portuguese

  • abrir
  • desdobrar
  • deslacrar

French

  • ouvrir
  • s'ouvrir
  • briser le sceau
171 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
261 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
241 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
80 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4950 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
550 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
270 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1821 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.13 Japanese for Busy People
396 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
400 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
215 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1840 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4121 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2092 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2835 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1636 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41233 Morohashi
3321 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6393 New Nelson (John Haig)
1622 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1750 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
290 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
391 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3855 2001 Kanji
8e4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
3-8-4 SKIP code
7744.1 Four corner code
1-19-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
958b Unicode hex code