Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
violent, get excited, enraged, chafe, incite
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
560 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 激 【ゲキ】 extremely, terrifically, super
  • 激化 【ゲキカ】 intensification, aggravation
  • 憤激 【フンゲキ】 fury, flying into a rage, outrage
  • 矯激 【キョウゲキ】 radical, extreme, eccentric

Kun reading compounds

  • 激しい 【はげしい】 violent, furious, tempestuous, extreme, intense, fierce, strong, fervent, vehement, incessant, relentless, precipitous, steep

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji1
Korean:
gyeog

Spanish

  • violento
  • furioso

Portuguese

  • violento
  • obtem excitado
  • enraged
  • chafe
  • incita

French

  • violent
  • s'exciter
  • enragé
  • s'énerver
  • inciter
859 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1210 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
596 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2712 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1365 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1506 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1017 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1056 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1039 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1254 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
955 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
534 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
696 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
509 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18438 Morohashi
776 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3350 New Nelson (John Haig)
497 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
536 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
990 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
366 2001 Kanji
3a13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-13 SKIP code
3814.0 Four corner code
1-23-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6fc0 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
spoon
Parts:
change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
89 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 化 【カ】 change to ..., becoming ..., making into ..., -ization, -ification
  • 化学 【カガク】 chemistry
  • 機械化 【キカイカ】 mechanization, mechanisation
  • 民営化 【ミンエイカ】 privatization, privatisation
  • 化粧 【ケショウ】 make-up, makeup, cosmetics, decoration, dressing, veneer
  • 化粧水 【ケショウスイ】 skin lotion, face lotion
  • 応化 【オウゲ】 assumption of a suitable form (by a buddha or bodhisattva)
  • 教化 【キョウケ】 guidance, teaching people and leading them to Buddhism

Kun reading compounds

  • 化ける 【ばける】 to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.), to assume the shape of, to turn oneself into, to transform oneself into, to disguise oneself as, to change radically, to metamorphose, to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
  • 化かす 【ばかす】 to bewitch, to confuse, to enchant, to delude
  • 老ける 【ふける】 to age, to grow old (esp. in appearance), to show marks of age

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua4
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • cambiar
  • transformarse
  • modificarse
  • disfrazarse

Portuguese

  • mudança
  • tomar a forma de
  • influência
  • encantar
  • iludir
  • seduzir
  • -isação

French

  • transformation
  • prendre la forme de
  • maquillage
  • influence
  • fantôme
  • enchanter
  • tromper
  • chimie
  • -isation
163 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
258 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
238 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
100 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
350 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
76 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
378 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
56 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.19 Japanese for Busy People
254 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
254 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
414 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
55 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
22 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1017 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2572X Morohashi
21 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
580 New Nelson (John Haig)
1008 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1083 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
104 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
242 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2156 2001 Kanji
2a2.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-2 SKIP code
2121.0 Four corner code
2421.0 Four corner code
1-18-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5316 Unicode hex code