Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
西
Variants:
smoke
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
1290 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 煙突 【エントツ】 chimney, smokestack, funnel (of a ship), stovepipe, carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter
  • 煙草 【タバコ】 tobacco, cigarette, cigar, tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)
  • 噴煙 【フンエン】 (eruption of) smoke
  • 黒煙 【コクエン】 black smoke

Kun reading compounds

  • 煙る 【けむる】 to smoke (e.g. fire), to billow smoke, to smoulder, to smolder, to be hazy, to look dim
  • 煙 【けむり】 smoke, fumes
  • 煙感知器 【けむりかんちき】 smoke detector
  • 黒煙 【こくえん】 black smoke
  • 砂煙 【すなけむり】 cloud of sand (dust, etc.)
  • 煙い 【けむい】 smoky

Readings

Japanese names:
たば
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan1
Korean:
yeon, in

Spanish

  • humo
  • humeante
  • fumarolas
  • humear

Portuguese

  • fumaça

French

  • fumée
1027 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1147 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2784 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
914 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
718 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
919 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
941 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1045 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1269 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1294 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
700 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
936 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1626 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19203X Morohashi
1021 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3456 New Nelson (John Haig)
1612 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1739 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1645 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1172 2001 Kanji
4d9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
1-1-12 SKIP code
9181.4 Four corner code
1-17-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7159 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
nitrate, saltpeter
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2154 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 硝酸 【ショウサン】 nitric acid
  • 硝煙 【ショウエン】 gunpowder smoke
  • 芒硝 【ボウショウ】 sal mirabilis, mirabilite, sodium sulfate decahydrate, sodium sulphate decahydrate
  • 石灰芒硝 【セッカイボウショウ】 glauberite

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao1
Korean:
cho, so

Spanish

  • nitrato
  • pólvora

Portuguese

  • nitrato
  • salitre

French

  • nitrate
  • salpêtre
1405 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1997 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3192 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1760 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1570 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1855 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2011 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1552 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1404 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1520 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
804 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1097 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
116 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24201P Morohashi
1185 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4007 New Nelson (John Haig)
115 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
120 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1572 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3346 2001 Kanji
5a7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-7 SKIP code
1962.7 Four corner code
1-30-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
785d Unicode hex code