Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
prison, jail
On:
ゴク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1529 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 獄 【ゴク】 jail, gaol, prison
  • 獄中 【ゴクチュウ】 during imprisonment, while in jail
  • 監獄 【カンゴク】 prison
  • 疑獄 【ギゴク】 bribery scandal, graft case

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu4
Korean:
og

Spanish

  • prisión
  • cárcel

Portuguese

  • prisão
  • cadeia

French

  • prison
1274 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1644 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2906 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1219 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1530 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
884 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
905 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1518 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1309 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
872 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
501 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
644 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
344 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20603 Morohashi
712 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3602 New Nelson (John Haig)
338 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
361 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1717 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2963 2001 Kanji
3g11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
4323.4 Four corner code
1-25-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7344 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
door, house 戶 (户, 戸)
Parts:
place, extent
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
221 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 所 【ショ】 counter for places
  • 署員 【ショイン】 staff member, station employee, official
  • 高所 【コウショ】 high place, high ground, height, (high) altitude, elevation, broad (point of) view
  • 随所 【ズイショ】 everywhere, all over the place, here and there, at every turn

Kun reading compounds

  • 所 【ところ】 place, spot, scene, site, address, district, area, locality, one's house, point, aspect, side, facet, passage (in text), part, space, room, thing, matter, whereupon, as a result, about to, on the verge of, was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing, approximately, around, about
  • 所が 【ところが】 even so, however, still, whereupon, even though, nevertheless, on the contrary, as a matter of fact, despite
  • 一所 【いっしょ】 one place, the same place, one person, together
  • 痛いところ 【いたいところ】 one's weak point, one's sore spot, raw nerve
  • 所か 【どころか】 far from, anything but, not at all ... but rather ..., not ..., on the contrary, ..., instead of, rather than, let alone, to say nothing of, not to mention, much less, not only ... (but also ...)
  • 所じゃない 【どころじゃない】 not the time for, not the place for, far from, anything but, ... is out of the question, ... isn't the word for it
  • 大所 【おおどころ】 wealthy family, important person, bigwig
  • 居所 【いどころ】 whereabouts, address, place of temporary residence
  • 所 【ところ】 place, spot, scene, site, address, district, area, locality, one's house, point, aspect, side, facet, passage (in text), part, space, room, thing, matter, whereupon, as a result, about to, on the verge of, was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing, approximately, around, about
  • 所が 【ところが】 even so, however, still, whereupon, even though, nevertheless, on the contrary, as a matter of fact, despite
  • 早いとこ 【はやいとこ】 promptly, quickly
  • 僕んとこ 【ぼくんとこ】 at my place

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
suo3
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • lugar

Portuguese

  • Lugar

French

  • lieu
246 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
328 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
312 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
107 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1821 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
137 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
177 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
600 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
153 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
153 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
149 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
843 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1056 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
568 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
752 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1137 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11715X Morohashi
851 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2054 New Nelson (John Haig)
1127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1208 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
129 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
305 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3054 2001 Kanji
4m4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
3222.1 Four corner code
7222.1 Four corner code
1-29-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6240 Unicode hex code