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

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 塵 【ジン】 defilement, impurity, affliction, object (perceived with the mind or the senses), one billionth
  • 塵埃 【ジンアイ】 dust, dirt, dreary world, petty affairs of everyday life
  • 灰塵 【カイジン】 ashes and dust
  • 細塵 【サイジン】 fine dust

Kun reading compounds

  • 塵 【ちり】 dust, trash, garbage, rubbish, dirt, negligible amount, tiny bit, hustle and bustle (of life), worldly cares, impurities of the world, ritual gestures indicating that a fight will be clean
  • ちり紙 【ちりがみ】 tissue paper, toilet paper
  • 塵 【ごみ】 rubbish, trash, garbage, refuse, litter
  • ゴミ箱 【ごみばこ】 trash can, garbage can, rubbish bin, dustbin
  • 粗大ごみ 【そだいごみ】 large-size refuse (e.g. furniture, electrical goods), oversized garbage, bulky rubbish, useless man about the house, husband who is retired and considered a nuisance
  • 家庭ごみ 【かていごみ】 household garbage, household trash, household refuse

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chen2
Korean:
jin

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5376 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2429 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3922 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5388 Morohashi
1087 New Nelson (John Haig)
2838 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2853 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3q11.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-11 SKIP code
0021.4 Four corner code
1-31-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5875 Unicode hex code