Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
Variants:
bake, burning
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
982 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 焼死 【ショウシ】 death by fire
  • 焼却 【ショウキャク】 incineration, destroy by fire
  • 半焼 【ハンショウ】 partial destruction by fire
  • 延焼 【エンショウ】 spread of fire

Kun reading compounds

  • 焼く 【やく】 to burn, to roast, to broil, to grill, to bake, to toast, to barbecue, to heat, to heat up, to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.), to bake, to fire, to burn, to tan (i.e. suntan), to burn, to print (a photo), to burn (an optical disc), to be jealous of, to be envious of, to envy
  • 焼き 【やき】 cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying, heating, tempering, -ware
  • 焼肉 【やきにく】 yakiniku, Japanese dish of grilled meat similar to Korean barbecue, roasted meat, grill
  • お好み焼き 【おこのみやき】 okonomiyaki, savoury pancake fried on an iron griddle with vegetables, meat and/or seafood and topped with various sauces and condiments
  • たこ焼き 【たこやき】 takoyaki, octopus dumplings
  • 焼ける 【やける】 to burn, to burn down, to go down in flames, to be roasted, to be thoroughly cooked, to be sunburnt, to fade (in the sun), to glow red (i.e. of the sky at sunset), to become hot (from the sun), to be jealous, to be envious

Readings

Japanese names:
やい、 やき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shao1
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • quemar
  • asar
  • hornear
  • quemarse
  • asarse
  • estar bronceado

Portuguese

  • assar
  • queimar

French

  • griller
  • brûler
434 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
539 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
509 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
733 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2772 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
671 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
717 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1588 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
920 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
942 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
218 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1268 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1256 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
681 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
909 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1208 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19166P Morohashi
997 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3438 New Nelson (John Haig)
1200 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1284 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
590 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1157 2001 Kanji
4d8.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
1-1-11 SKIP code
9481.1 Four corner code
1-30-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
713c Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
lid
Parts:
Variants:
deceased, the late, dying, perish
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
661 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 亡 【ボウ】 death, the late, the deceased
  • 亡命 【ボウメイ】 fleeing from one's country, seeking asylum, defection, emigration (for political reasons), (going into) exile, becoming a (political) refugee
  • 存亡 【ソンボウ】 life or death, existence, destiny
  • 興亡 【コウボウ】 rise and fall, ups and downs
  • 亡者 【モウジャ】 the dead, ghost, person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.), person with a blind lust (for)
  • 亡者船 【モウジャブネ】 ship of the dead which appears if one goes fishing during the Bon festival
  • 焼亡 【ショウボウ】 destruction by fire
  • 損亡 【ソンモウ】 loss

Kun reading compounds

  • 亡い 【ない】 dead
  • 滅びる 【ほろびる】 to go to ruin, to go under, to fall, to be destroyed, to die out, to become extinct, to perish
  • 滅ぶ 【ほろぶ】 to be ruined, to go under, to perish, to be destroyed
  • 滅ぼす 【ほろぼす】 to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wang2, wu2
Korean:
mang, mu

Spanish

  • desaparecer
  • perecer
  • difunto
  • huir
  • escapar

Portuguese

  • falecido
  • agonizante
  • atrasado
  • perecer

French

  • décédé
  • feu ...
  • mon regretté ...
  • mourir
  • périr
  • détruire
985 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
973 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
887 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
281 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
979 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
297 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
672 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
684 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
582 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
37 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4210 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2126 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2874 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
496 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
287 Morohashi
3402 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
86 New Nelson (John Haig)
485 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
524 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
829 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
475 2001 Kanji
2j1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-2 SKIP code
4-3-4 SKIP code
2-2-1 SKIP code
0071.0 Four corner code
1-43-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4ea1 Unicode hex code