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

15 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
chopsticks
Kun:
はし
On:
チョチャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2156 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 匕箸 【ヒチョ】 spoon and chopsticks

Kun reading compounds

  • 箸 【はし】 chopsticks
  • 箸洗い 【はしあらい】 simple and light soup taken between courses in a kaiseki meal, or during a formal tea ceremony
  • マイ箸 【マイばし】 one's own chopsticks, washable chopsticks carried in a case (used instead of disposable chopsticks)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu4
Korean:
jeo

Spanish

  • palillos (para comer o cocinar)

Portuguese

French

3422 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2381 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1932 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3359 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2363 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26224X Morohashi
2708 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4301 New Nelson (John Haig)
2640 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-9 SKIP code
8860.4 Four corner code
8860.3 Four corner code
1-40-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7bb8 Unicode hex code