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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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

13 strokes
Radical:
rat, mouse
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鼠疫 【ソエキ】 plague, pest
  • 鼠害 【ソガイ】 damage by rats or mice
  • 海鼠 【ナマコ】 sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
  • 飛鼠 【ヒソ】 bat (animal)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠穴 【ねずみあな】 rathole, mousehole
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 臭鼠 【においねずみ】 muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠子 【ねずこ】 Japanese arborvitae (Thuja standishii)
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 梅鼠 【うめねず】 grayish pink, rose grey

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu3
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • ratón
  • rata

Portuguese

French

5417 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2430 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3340 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
48390 Morohashi
2693 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7078 New Nelson (John Haig)
2065 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2856 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-7 SKIP code
2-5-7 SKIP code
7771.7 Four corner code
1-33-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9f20 Unicode hex code