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

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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

12 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 脹満 【チョウマン】 tympanites, abdominal dropsy, bloating of the abdominal region
  • 鼓腸 【コチョウ】 flatulence, meteorism, tympanites, bloat, bloating
  • 腫脹 【シュチョウ】 swelling

Kun reading compounds

  • 腫れる 【はれる】 to swell (from inflammation), to become swollen
  • 膨らむ 【ふくらむ】 to expand, to swell (out), to get big, to become inflated
  • 膨れる 【ふくれる】 to swell (out), to expand, to be inflated, to distend, to bulge, to get cross, to get sulky, to pout

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhang4
Korean:
chang

Spanish

  • dilatar
  • hinchar
  • exceder

Portuguese

  • dilatar
  • dilatação
  • saliência
  • completa
  • intumescência

French

  • dilater
  • distendre
  • bosse
  • bourrer (remplir)
  • gonfler
  • bouder
1593 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2033 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3782 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1861 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1922 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2141 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1927 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1037 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1265 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
685 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
916 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1942 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29570 Morohashi
1003 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4832 New Nelson (John Haig)
1923 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2073 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1549 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3965 2001 Kanji
4b8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
7123.2 Four corner code
1-36-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8139 Unicode hex code