Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
Variants:
lamp, a light, light, counter for lights
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1605 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 灯 【トウ】 light, lamp, counter for electric lights
  • 灯台 【トウダイ】 lighthouse, old-fashioned interior light fixture comprising a wooden pole with an oil-filled dish and a wick atop it
  • 消灯 【ショウトウ】 putting out the lights, turning off the lights
  • 探海灯 【タンカイトウ】 searchlight

Kun reading compounds

  • 灯 【ひ】 light, lamp
  • 灯明かり 【ひあかり】 lamplight, torchlight
  • 灯火 【ともしび】 light, lamp, torch
  • 灯す 【ともす】 to light (a candle, lamp, etc.), to turn on (a light)
  • 明かり 【あかり】 light, illumination, glow, gleam, lamp, light
  • 明かりを消す 【あかりをけす】 to turn the lights off

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
deng1
Korean:
deung

Spanish

  • lámpara
  • luz
  • contador para luces

Portuguese

  • lâmpada
  • luz
  • sufixo p/ contagem de luzes

French

  • lampe
  • lumière
  • compteur de lampes
583 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
556 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1290 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2745 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
537 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
711 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1333 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1416 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
871 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1262 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1019 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
552 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
730 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
167 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18855 Morohashi
825 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3395 New Nelson (John Haig)
165 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
177 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
471 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1153 2001 Kanji
4d2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-2 SKIP code
1-1-5 SKIP code
9182.0 Four corner code
1-37-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
706f Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
time, about, toward
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2015 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 頃 【ケイ】 qing (Chinese unit of land area equal to 100 mu)
  • 頃刻 【ケイコク】 short period
  • 万頃 【バンケイ】 vast expanse

Kun reading compounds

  • 頃 【ころ】 (approximate) time, around, about, toward, suitable time (or condition), time of year, season
  • 頃おい 【ころおい】 time, period, days
  • 幼い頃 【おさないころ】 when one was a very young child, very early in one's life
  • 間もない頃 【まもないころ】 in the early period (of something), at the beginning
  • 頃 【ころ】 (approximate) time, around, about, toward, suitable time (or condition), time of year, season
  • 今日この頃 【きょうこのごろ】 these days, nowadays, recently
  • 使い頃 【つかいごろ】 handy

Readings

Japanese names:
ころも
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing3, qing1
Korean:
gyeong, gyu

Spanish

  • tiempo
  • aproximadamente
  • hacia
  • sobre

Portuguese

French

  • temps
  • époque
  • environ
  • vers
1691 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
754 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1906 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1532 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
163 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
124 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
453 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43338 Morohashi
144 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6615 New Nelson (John Haig)
2791 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
479 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
291 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
9a2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-9 SKIP code
2178.6 Four corner code
1-26-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9803 Unicode hex code