Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
Variants:
cramped, narrow, contract, tight
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1346 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 狭心症 【キョウシンショウ】 angina pectoris
  • 狭義 【キョウギ】 narrow sense (e.g. of a word)
  • 偏狭 【ヘンキョウ】 narrow-mindedness, intolerance, illiberality, narrowness
  • 広狭 【コウキョウ】 width, width and narrowness

Kun reading compounds

  • 狭い 【せまい】 narrow, confined, small, cramped, limited, narrow-minded, confining
  • 狭める 【せばめる】 to narrow, to reduce, to contract
  • 狭まる 【せばまる】 to narrow, to contract
  • 狭 【さ】 narrow, thin
  • 狭霧 【さぎり】 mist, fog
  • 若狭 【わかさ】 Wakasa (former province located in the south of present-day Fukui Prefecture)

Readings

Japanese names:
はざ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xia2
Korean:
hyeob

Spanish

  • apretado
  • estrecho
  • encogido
  • estrecharse
  • encogerse
  • estrechar
  • angosto

Portuguese

  • limitar
  • estreitar
  • contrair
  • apertar

French

  • étroit
  • exigu
  • serré
  • se contracter
1166 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1370 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2882 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1413 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
729 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
790 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1353 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1436 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
560 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1301 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
473 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
294 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
355 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1274 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20406P Morohashi
396 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3572 New Nelson (John Haig)
1266 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1356 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1279 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2963 2001 Kanji
3g6.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
4523.0 Four corner code
1-22-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72ed Unicode hex code

18 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
forehead, tablet, plaque, framed picture, sum, amount, volume
Kun:
ひたい
On:
ガク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
407 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 額 【ガク】 (picture) frame, framed picture, amount (esp. of money), sum
  • 額面 【ガクメン】 face value, par
  • 定額 【テイガク】 fixed amount (of money), fixed sum, flat sum
  • 税額 【ゼイガク】 amount of tax

Kun reading compounds

  • 額 【ひたい】 forehead, brow
  • 額当て 【ひたいあて】 (military) headband with reinforced metal plate, red headband
  • 広い額 【ひろいひたい】 high brow, broad forehead

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬか
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
e2
Korean:
aeg

Spanish

  • frente
  • cantidad de dinero
  • marco de un cuadro

Portuguese

  • testa
  • tablete
  • placa
  • quadro emoldurado
  • soma
  • quantia
  • volume

French

  • front
  • tablette
  • plaque
  • peinture (encadrée)
  • somme
  • montant
  • volume
748 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
665 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
635 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
522 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5136 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
749 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1010 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2756 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
838 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
857 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
861 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1892 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2273 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1174 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1604 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
301 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43586 Morohashi
1805 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6644 New Nelson (John Haig)
295 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
316 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
821 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
761 2001 Kanji
9a9.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-9 SKIP code
3168.6 Four corner code
1-19-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
984d Unicode hex code