Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
burn, blaze, glow
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
948 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 燃費 【ネンピ】 fuel consumption, gas mileage
  • 燃焼 【ネンショウ】 burning, combustion, exerting all strength, making an effort
  • 不燃 【フネン】 incombustibility
  • 可燃 【カネン】 inflammable, flammable, combustible, burnable

Kun reading compounds

  • 燃える 【もえる】 to burn, to get fired up
  • 燃えるゴミ 【もえるごみ】 burnable garbage, burnable waste
  • 燃やす 【もやす】 to burn, to burn with (emotion, feeling), to be fired up
  • 燃やすごみ 【もやすごみ】 burnable garbage, burnable waste
  • 燃やす 【もやす】 to burn, to burn with (emotion, feeling), to be fired up

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ran2
Korean:
yeon

Spanish

  • quemar
  • quemarse
  • arder

Portuguese

  • queimadura
  • chama
  • ardor

French

  • brûler
  • flamber
690 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
786 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
765 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1142 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2808 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
541 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
721 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
652 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
663 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
870 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1271 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1375 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
739 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
995 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
249 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19394 Morohashi
1081 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3490 New Nelson (John Haig)
510 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
549 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
816 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1140 2001 Kanji
4d12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-12 SKIP code
1-1-15 SKIP code
9383.3 Four corner code
1-39-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
71c3 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:
Variants:
sabre, sword, blade, clock hand
Kun:
つるぎ
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1305 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 剣 【ケン】 sword (esp. a large, double-edged one), blade, bayonet, swordsmanship, stinger, ovipositor, dart
  • 剣士 【ケンシ】 swordsman, swordswoman, fencer
  • 銃剣 【ジュウケン】 bayonet, guns and swords
  • 刀剣 【トウケン】 sword, dagger, knife, bayonet

Kun reading compounds

  • 剣 【けん】 sword (esp. a large, double-edged one), blade, bayonet, swordsmanship, stinger, ovipositor, dart
  • 剣の舞 【つるぎのまい】 Sabre Dance
  • 月の剣 【つきのつるぎ】 new moon, crescent moon
  • 草薙の剣 【くさなぎのつるぎ】 Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia), grass-mowing sword

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian4
Korean:
geom

Spanish

  • sable
  • espada
  • hoja de espada

Portuguese

  • sabre
  • espada
  • lâmina
  • ponteiro de relógio

French

  • sabre
  • épée
  • lame
  • aiguille de montre
1214 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1248 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
696 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1436 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1095 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1151 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
879 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
900 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
791 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
198 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2104 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1096 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1493 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1687 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2076 Morohashi
1672 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
498 New Nelson (John Haig)
1671 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1801 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1310 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2843 2001 Kanji
2f8.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-2 SKIP code
8250.0 Four corner code
1-23-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5263 Unicode hex code