Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
Variants:
fire
Kun:
-びほ-
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
574 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 火 【カ】 Tuesday, fire (second of the five elements)
  • 火炎瓶 【カエンビン】 Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb, gasoline bomb
  • 発火 【ハッカ】 ignition, combustion, catching fire, firing a blank cartridge, discharge of a gun without bullets
  • 点火 【テンカ】 ignition, lighting, firing, setting off

Kun reading compounds

  • 火 【ひ】 fire, flame, blaze
  • 火口 【ひぐち】 burner, nozzle, origin of a fire
  • 飛び火 【とびひ】 leaping flames, flying sparks, spread of fire (due to leaping flames), repercussions in unanticipated areas, spilling over, effects of an incident spreading to those seemingly uninvolved, impetigo contagiosa
  • 不知火 【しらぬい】 phosphorescent light, mysterious lights on the sea, sea fire

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huo3
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • fuego
  • flama
  • llama

Portuguese

  • fogo

French

  • feu
13 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
15 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
8 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
432 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2743 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
15 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
69 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
52 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
20 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
20 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
18 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1260 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4273 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2159 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2911 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
163 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18850 Morohashi
3463 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3394 New Nelson (John Haig)
161 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
173 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
27 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1162 2001 Kanji
4d0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
1-1-3 SKIP code
9080.0 Four corner code
1-18-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
706b Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
pestle
Parts:
dry, parch, ebb, recede, interfere, intercede
Kun:
ほ.すほ.し--ぼ.しひ.る
On:
カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1349 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 関与 【カンヨ】 participation, taking part in, participating in, being concerned in
  • 干渉 【カンショウ】 interference, intervention, meddling
  • 水干 【スイカン】 everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan, silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out
  • 十干 【ジッカン】 ten celestial stems (two types each of wood, fire, earth, metal, water), ten heavenly stems

Kun reading compounds

  • 干す 【ほす】 to air, to dry, to desiccate, to drain (off), to drink up, to deprive of a role, job, etc.
  • 干る 【ひる】 to dry (up), to become parched, to ebb, to recede

Readings

Japanese names:
ほし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gan1, gan4
Korean:
gan, gang

Spanish

  • secarse
  • secar
  • relacionar
  • airear

Portuguese

  • sêco
  • ressecar

French

  • sec
  • dessécher
840 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
825 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1179 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1492 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1542 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
502 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
26 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
584 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
593 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
506 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
572 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4187 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2116 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2863 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1663 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9165 Morohashi
3379 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1589 New Nelson (John Haig)
1648 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1777 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
826 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3155 2001 Kanji
2k1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
1040.0 Four corner code
1-20-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e72 Unicode hex code