Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
bear
Kun:
くま
On:
ユウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1105 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 熊害 【ユウガイ】 damages caused by bears (on human settlements, including attacks on humans)
  • 熊掌 【ユウショウ】 bear's palm (meat treasured in ancient China)

Kun reading compounds

  • 熊 【くま】 bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
  • 熊手 【くまで】 rake, fork, bamboo rake
  • 蜂熊 【はちくま】 crested honey buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus), Oriental honey buzzard, pern
  • 黒熊 【くろくま】 black bear

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiong2
Korean:
ung

Spanish

  • oso

Portuguese

French

  • ours
1148 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2791 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1987 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2410 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2149 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
389 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3530 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1823 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2479 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2022 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19294 Morohashi
2848 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3468 New Nelson (John Haig)
2003 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2159 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2740 2001 Kanji
4d10.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-10-4 SKIP code
2133.1 Four corner code
2233.1 Four corner code
1-23-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
718a Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蟻蚕 【ギサン】 silkworm (in the first or second instar)
  • 蟻酸 【ギサン】 formic acid, formic
  • 兵蟻 【ヘイギ】 soldier ant

Kun reading compounds

  • 蟻 【あり】 ant
  • アリ学 【アリがく】 myrmecology, the study of ants
  • 兵隊アリ 【へいたいアリ】 soldier ant
  • 軍隊蟻 【ぐんたいあり】 army ant, driver ant

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi3
Korean:
eui

Spanish

  • hormiga

Portuguese

French

4196 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2804 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
33672 Morohashi
5397 New Nelson (John Haig)
2686 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2726 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d13.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-13 SKIP code
5815.3 Four corner code
1-21-34 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
87fb Unicode hex code