Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
charcoal, coal
Kun:
すみ
On:
タン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1307 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 炭素 【タンソ】 carbon (C)
  • 炭鉱 【タンコウ】 coal mine, (coal) pit, colliery, coal-mine shaft
  • 木炭 【モクタン】 charcoal
  • 活性炭 【カッセイタン】 activated charcoal, activated carbon

Kun reading compounds

  • 炭 【すみ】 charcoal, charred remains
  • 炭火 【すみび】 charcoal fire
  • 正炭 【しょうすみ】 first adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony)
  • 竹炭 【たけすみ】 bamboo charcoal

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tan4
Korean:
tan

Spanish

  • carbón vegetal
  • carbón

Portuguese

  • carvão

French

  • charbon de bois
  • charbon
274 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
361 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
341 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1007 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1418 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
842 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
713 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1186 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1344 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1427 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
875 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1267 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2806 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1445 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1947 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
778 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18953 Morohashi
2257 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3413 New Nelson (John Haig)
771 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
833 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
337 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1262 2001 Kanji
3o6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
3-5-4 SKIP code
2228.9 Four corner code
1-35-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
70ad Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
pit, hole
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2040 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 坑 【コウ】 pit (esp. of a mine)
  • 坑口 【コウコウ】 pithead, minehead
  • 廃坑 【ハイコウ】 closure of a mine, abandoned mine, disused mine
  • 開坑 【カイコウ】 opening of mine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
keng1
Korean:
gaeng

Spanish

  • hoyo
  • agujero
  • caverna
  • mina

Portuguese

  • buraco
  • furo

French

  • mine
  • fosse
  • trou
1245 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1853 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1063 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1524 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1148 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1613 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1721 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1928 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
369 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
277 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
174 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
208 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
312 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4932 Morohashi
236 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
987 New Nelson (John Haig)
306 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
328 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1108 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1457 2001 Kanji
3b4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
4011.7 Four corner code
1-25-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5751 Unicode hex code