Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:

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On reading compounds

  • 狐疑 【コギ】 doubt, suspicion, hesitation, indecision
  • 狐疑逡巡 【コギシュンジュン】 being in doubt and unable to decide, hesitation and indecision
  • 霊狐 【レイコ】 fox with supernatural powers
  • 空狐 【クウコ】 fox with supernatural powers

Kun reading compounds

  • 狐 【きつね】 fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes), fox (i.e. a sly person), soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu, light brown, golden brown
  • 狐薊 【きつねあざみ】 Hemisteptia lyrata
  • 北狐 【きたきつね】 Ezo red fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki)
  • 雌の狐 【めすのきつね】 bitch fox, vixen

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu2
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • zorro

Portuguese

French

2878 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
789 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
472 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
20333X Morohashi
3568 New Nelson (John Haig)
2342 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2431 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3g6.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
4223.0 Four corner code
1-24-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72d0 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
Variants:

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On reading compounds

  • 海狸 【カイリ】 beaver
  • 狐狗狸 【コックリ】 kokkuri, divination technique similar to table turning and planchette

Kun reading compounds

  • 狸 【たぬき】 tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides), raccoon dog, sly dog, sly old fox, sly fox, cunning devil, sly person
  • 狸親父 【たぬきおやじ】 sly (cunning) old man
  • 同じ穴の狸 【おなじあなのたぬき】 (villains) of the same stripe, birds of a feather, raccoon dogs of the same hole

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li2
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • mapache
  • tejón

Portuguese

French

2887 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
20427 Morohashi
3578 New Nelson (John Haig)
2338 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2427 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3g7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
4621.4 Four corner code
1-35-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72f8 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:
attractive, bewitching, calamity
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1964 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 妖精 【ヨウセイ】 fairy, sprite, elf
  • 妖怪 【ヨウカイ】 ghost, apparition, phantom, spectre, specter, demon, monster, goblin, yōkai
  • 大妖 【タイヨウ】 great demon, ghostly giant
  • 天変地夭 【テンペンチヨウ】 natural disaster

Kun reading compounds

  • 妖しい 【あやしい】 mysterious, bewitching, alluring, enticing, enchanting

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao1
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • sospechoso
  • dudoso
  • hechicero
  • cautivador

Portuguese

French

1888 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1198 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1884 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
282 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
212 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
6086 Morohashi
1190 New Nelson (John Haig)
2078 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
458 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3e4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
4243.4 Four corner code
1-45-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5996 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
Variants:
suspicious, mystery, apparition
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1634 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 怪 【カイ】 mystery, wonder
  • 怪獣 【カイジュウ】 monster
  • 奇々怪々 【キキカイカイ】 very strange, bizarre, weird, mysterious
  • 夜道怪 【ヤドウカイ】 folk monster who wanders at night injuring and kidnapping people
  • 怪我 【ケガ】 injury, wound, mistake, accident, loss
  • けが人 【ケガニン】 wounded person, injured person
  • 物怪 【モッケ】 unexpected
  • 物の怪 【モノノケ】 (vengeful) ghost, specter, spectre

Kun reading compounds

  • 怪しい 【あやしい】 suspicious, dubious, questionable, dodgy, shady, fishy, doubtful, unsure, uncertain, unlikely, implausible, untrustworthy, unreliable, clumsy, awkward, shaky, poor, strange, weird, eerie, spooky, uncanny, ominous (e.g. weather), threatening, dangerous (e.g. financial situation), uncertain, suspicious (of a potential amorous relation), mysterious, bewitching, alluring, enticing, enchanting
  • 怪しい手つきで 【あやしいてつきで】 clumsily, with clumsy hands
  • 怪しむ 【あやしむ】 to suspect

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guai4
Korean:
goe

Spanish

  • desconfiado
  • receloso
  • misterio
  • fantasma
  • sospechoso
  • desconfiar
  • recelar
  • dudar
  • sospechar

Portuguese

  • Suspeito
  • mistério
  • aparição

French

  • méfiant
  • mystère
  • apparition
1061 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1367 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1665 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1176 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1291 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1476 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1573 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1450 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
809 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
354 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
264 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
723 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10483 Morohashi
297 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1821 New Nelson (John Haig)
716 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
773 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1172 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1172 2001 Kanji
4k5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
9701.4 Four corner code
1-18-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
602a Unicode hex code