Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
lunatic, insane, crazy, confuse
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1425 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 狂 【キョウ】 (some type of) enthusiast, someone possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality
  • 狂気 【キョウキ】 madness, insanity
  • 酔狂 【スイキョウ】 whim, caprice, vagary, eccentricity
  • 躁狂 【ソウキョウ】 frenzy, delirium, wild excitement, mania

Kun reading compounds

  • 狂う 【くるう】 to go mad, to lose one's mind, to go crazy, to go insane, to get out of order, to go amiss, to malfunction, to become imprecise, to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.), to fall through, to get mixed up, to go crazy (over someone or something), to get enthusiastic, to go wild
  • 狂おしい 【くるおしい】 mad (with grief, love, etc.), crazy, out of one's mind, on the verge of insanity
  • 狂おしい 【くるおしい】 mad (with grief, love, etc.), crazy, out of one's mind, on the verge of insanity

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuang2
Korean:
gwang

Spanish

  • locura
  • desorden
  • enloquecer
  • loco
  • demente

Portuguese

  • lunático
  • louco
  • insano
  • confundir

French

  • fou
  • aliéné
  • insensé
  • confusion
1161 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1352 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2872 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
972 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1523 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
366 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
883 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
904 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1513 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1300 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
318 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
202 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
241 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
266 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20287 Morohashi
269 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3562 New Nelson (John Haig)
260 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
277 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1141 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2972 2001 Kanji
3g4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
4121.4 Four corner code
1-22-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72c2 Unicode hex code

2 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
person
Kun:
ひと-り-と
On:
ジンニン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
5 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 人 【ジン】 -ian (e.g. Italian), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite), -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with ..., man, person, people
  • 人為 【ジンイ】 human work, human agency, art, artificiality
  • 米人 【ベイジン】 American person
  • 俳人 【ハイジン】 haiku poet
  • 人 【ニン】 counter for people
  • 人気 【ニンキ】 popularity, public favor, condition (e.g. market), tone, character, nature
  • 同人 【ドウジン】 same person, said person, the person in question, coterie, clique, fraternity, kindred spirits, comrade, colleague, dōjin, doujin, Japanese fans or hobbyists who produce their own magazines, manga, software, etc.
  • 代人 【ダイニン】 substitute, deputy, proxy, representative, agent

Kun reading compounds

  • 人 【ひと】 person, someone, somebody, human beings, mankind, man, people, humans, human (Homo sapiens), (other) people, others, character, personality, nature, capable person, competent person, suitable person, right person, adult, grown-up, I, me, one
  • 人一倍 【ひといちばい】 (much) more than others, exceedingly, extremely, unusually
  • 貴人 【きじん】 aristocrat, nobleman, dignitary, person of high rank
  • いい人 【いいひと】 good-natured person, good person, (one's) lover, boyfriend, girlfriend

Readings

Japanese names:
じ、 と、 ね、 ひこ、 ふみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ren2
Korean:
in

Spanish

  • persona

Portuguese

  • pessoa

French

  • être humain
  • personne
30 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
39 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
9 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
339 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
11 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
14 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
1 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
15 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
42 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4175 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2111 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2857 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
960 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
344 Morohashi
3368 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
99 New Nelson (John Haig)
951 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1023 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
7 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1262 2001 Kanji
2a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-2-4 SKIP code
8000.0 Four corner code
1-31-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4eba Unicode hex code