Jisho

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潮

15 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
十 汁 日 月
tide, salt water, opportunity
Kun:
しお、 うしお
On:
チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1231 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 潮流 【チョウリュウ】 tide, tidal current, tendency, drift, trend
  • 潮位 【チョウイ】 tide level
  • 思潮 【シチョウ】 trend of thought
  • 退潮 【タイチョウ】 ebb tide, waning fortunes

Kun reading compounds

  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 潮風 【しおかぜ】 salty sea breeze, salt wind
  • 黒潮 【くろしお】 Kuroshio Current, Japan Current
  • 赤潮 【あかしお】 red tide
  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 潮汁 【うしおじる】 thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 夕潮 【ゆうしお】 evening tide

Readings

Japanese names:
いた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chao2
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • agua de mar
  • marea
  • tendencia
  • oportunidad

Portuguese

  • maré
  • água salgada
  • oportunidade

French

  • marée
  • eau salée
  • opportunité
952 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
941 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1105 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2702 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
980 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1504 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2275 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
468 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
476 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1508 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1252 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
916 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
516 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
675 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
143 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18277P Morohashi
739 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3336 New Nelson (John Haig)
141 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
152 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
988 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-36-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f6e Unicode hex code

汐

6 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
夕 汁
eventide, tide, salt water, opportunity
Kun:
しお、 うしお、 せい
On:
セキ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2314 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 潮汐 【チョウセキ】 tide

Kun reading compounds

  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 潮時 【しおどき】 tidal hour, right time, favourable opportunity (favorable)
  • 夕潮 【ゆうしお】 evening tide
  • 引き潮 【ひきしお】 ebb tide
  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 夕潮 【ゆうしお】 evening tide

Readings

Japanese names:
いそ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1, xi4
Korean:
seog

Spanish

  • ocaso
  • marea
  • agua salada

Portuguese

French

  • soirée
  • marée
  • eau salée
  • opportunité
2488 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
250 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2134 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
259 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
164 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
197 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
111 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17122 Morohashi
223 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3041 New Nelson (John Haig)
110 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
115 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
360 2001 Kanji
3a3.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-3 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-28-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c50 Unicode hex code

発

9 strokes
Radical:
footsteps 癶
Parts:
二 儿 癶
Variants:
發
departure, discharge, publish, emit, start from, disclose, counter for gunshots
Kun:
た.つ、 あば.く、 おこ.る、 つか.わす、 はな.つ
On:
ハツ、 ホツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
32 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 発 【ハツ】 departure, departing from ..., leaving at (e.g. 8:30), sent from ..., (a letter, etc.) dated ..., datelined ..., counter for engines (on an aircraft), counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc., counter for bullets, bombs, etc., counter for blows (punches), counter for jokes, puns, etc., counter for ideas, thoughts or guesses, counter for ejaculations or sexual intercourse
  • 発 【ハツ】 green dragon tile, winning hand with a pung (or kong) of green dragon tiles
  • 偶発 【グウハツ】 sudden outbreak, accidental, incidental
  • 電源開発 【デンゲンカイハツ】 development of electrical power resources
  • 発熱 【ハツネツ】 generation of heat, (attack of) fever, pyrexia
  • 発議 【ハツギ】 proposal, suggestion, motion, initiative

Kun reading compounds

  • 発つ 【たつ】 to depart (on a journey, trip, etc.), to leave, to set off, to start
  • 立つ鳥跡を濁さず 【たつとりあとをにごさず】 it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself, a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave, on leaving a place, one should see that all is in good order
  • 暴く 【あばく】 to disclose, to divulge, to expose, to open (a grave), to dig out

Readings

Japanese names:
ば、 わ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fa1
Korean:
bal

Spanish

  • abrir
  • exponer
  • suceder

Portuguese

  • liberar
  • partida
  • publicar
  • emitir
  • a partir de
  • revelar

French

  • départ
  • décharge
  • dégagement
  • publier
  • émettre
  • partir de
  • divulguer
  • compteur de coups de feu
303 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
392 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
370 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
43 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3092 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
186 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
225 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
953 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
96 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
96 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
286 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1360 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3174 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1634 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2222 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1721 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22662P Morohashi
2565 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3860 New Nelson (John Haig)
1705 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1840 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
102 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
342 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3557 2001 Kanji
0a9.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
1241.5 Four corner code
1-40-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
767a Unicode hex code

電

13 strokes
Radical:
rain 雨
Parts:
乙 田 雨
electricity
On:
デン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
268 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 電化 【デンカ】 electrification
  • 電圧 【デンアツ】 voltage
  • 送電 【ソウデン】 transmission of electricity, electricity supply, power supply
  • 配電 【ハイデン】 distribution of electricity

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dian4
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

  • electricidad
  • eléctrico

Portuguese

  • eletricidade

French

  • électricité
286 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
197 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
180 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
125 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5050 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
222 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
98 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2025 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
108 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
108 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
61 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1862 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3465 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1784 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2431 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
541 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42253 Morohashi
2790 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6526 New Nelson (John Haig)
535 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
574 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
332 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
228 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3156 2001 Kanji
8d5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-5 SKIP code
1071.6 Four corner code
1-37-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96fb Unicode hex code