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

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  • 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

11 strokes
Radical:
village, mile
Parts:
Variants:
plains, field, rustic, civilian life
Kun:
の-
On:
ショ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
120 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 野 【ノ】 plain, field, hidden (structural) member, wild, lacking a political post
  • 野外 【ヤガイ】 outdoors, outside, open air, fields, outskirts, suburbs
  • 内野 【ナイヤ】 infield, diamond
  • 在野 【ザイヤ】 out of office, out of power, in opposition, unaffiliated (e.g. researcher, scientist), in private practice

Kun reading compounds

  • 野 【の】 plain, field, hidden (structural) member, wild, lacking a political post
  • 野末 【のずえ】 corners of a field
  • 裾野 【すその】 foot of a mountain, plain at the foot of a mountain, range, spread, extent, encompassing circle
  • 郊野 【こうの】 suburban fields

Readings

Japanese names:
ずけ、 つけ、 ぬ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ye3
Korean:
ya

Spanish

  • campo
  • llano
  • extensión
  • rango
  • natural
  • civil
  • no oficial

Portuguese

  • planícies
  • campo
  • rústico
  • vida de civil

French

  • sauvage
  • champ
  • rustique
  • vie civile
323 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
233 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
213 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
85 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4814 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
128 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
267 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1398 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.2 Japanese for Busy People
236 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
236 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
404 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1803 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1877 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
998 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1350 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1610 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40133 Morohashi
1485 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6208 New Nelson (John Haig)
1596 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1722 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
170 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
211 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3653 2001 Kanji
0a11.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
6712.2 Four corner code
1-44-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91ce Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Kun:
かわ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
  • 山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
  • 四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kun reading compounds

  • 川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
  • 川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
  • 堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
  • 山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • arroyo
  • río

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • rio

French

  • rivière
  • fleuve
  • radical rivière (no. 47)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
59 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
48 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
41 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
49 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
20 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
33 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
33 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
101 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
6 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8673 Morohashi
6 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1526 New Nelson (John Haig)
127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
21 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
0a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
2200.0 Four corner code
1-32-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ddd Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
field
Parts:
Variants:
town, village, block, street
Kun:
まち
On:
チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
292 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 町 【チョウ】 town, block, neighbourhood, neighborhood, street, chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m), chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
  • 町議会 【チョウギカイ】 town council
  • 同町 【ドウチョウ】 the same town, that town
  • 門前町 【モンゼンマチ】 town originally built around a temple or shrine

Kun reading compounds

  • 町 【まち】 town, block, neighbourhood, neighborhood, downtown, main street, street, road
  • 街角 【まちかど】 street corner
  • 室町 【むろまち】 Muromachi period (1336-1573)
  • 門前町 【もんぜんまち】 town originally built around a temple or shrine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ting3, ding1
Korean:
jeong

Spanish

  • pueblo
  • ciudad
  • bloque
  • calle

Portuguese

  • aldeia
  • cidade
  • bloco
  • rua

French

  • quartier
  • ville
  • village
  • rue
115 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
61 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
57 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
114 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2995 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
167 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
221 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
426 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
182 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
182 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
549 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1335 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1430 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
756 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1028 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
93 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21735 Morohashi
1113 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3729 New Nelson (John Haig)
92 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
96 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
63 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3653 2001 Kanji
5f2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
6102.0 Four corner code
1-36-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
753a Unicode hex code