Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
jade (king) 玉 (王)
Parts:
play, take pleasure in, trifle with, make sport of
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2216 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 玩具 【オモチャ】 toy, (person or thing treated as a) plaything
  • 玩菓 【ガンガ】 food sold with a toy
  • 賞玩 【ショウガン】 appreciation, admiration, enjoyment
  • 食玩 【ショクガン】 small toy included with food

Kun reading compounds

  • 弄ぶ 【もてあそぶ】 to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.), to fiddle with, to toy with (one's emotions, etc.), to trifle with, to do with something as one pleases, to appreciate

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wan2, wan4
Korean:
wan

Spanish

  • jugar
  • juguete
  • tratar cuidadosamente

Portuguese

French

2925 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2003 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1085 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
778 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
20872 Morohashi
3622 New Nelson (John Haig)
2567 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
276 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4f4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
1111.1 Four corner code
1-20-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
73a9 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
eight
Parts:
tool, utensil, means, possess, ingredients, counter for armor, suits, sets of furniture
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
629 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 具 【グ】 tool, means, ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.), counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.
  • 具合 【グアイ】 condition, state, health, state (of health), way, manner, circumstance, luck, face, dignity, decency, propriety
  • 文具 【ブング】 stationery
  • 金具 【カナグ】 metal fittings, metal fixtures

Kun reading compounds

  • 備える 【そなえる】 to furnish with, to equip with, to provide, to install, to prepare for, to make preparations for, to make provision for, to possess (all that is needed), to be endowed with, to be equipped with, to be born with, to have since birth
  • 具に 【つぶさに】 in detail, with great care, completely, fully

Readings

Japanese names:
とも
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ju4
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • herramienta
  • utensilio
  • ingredientes

Portuguese

  • ferramenta
  • utensílio
  • meios
  • posses
  • ingredientes
  • sufixo para contagem de armaduras
  • coleção
  • mobília

French

  • outils
  • ustensiles
  • moyens
  • ingrédients
  • possession
  • compteur d'armures, costumes, meubles
  • minutieusement
383 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
284 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
265 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
513 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3128 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
400 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
344 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
718 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
420 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
426 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
720 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
156 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3159 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1622 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2208 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
74 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1473 Morohashi
2552 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
376 New Nelson (John Haig)
74 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
78 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
296 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3961 2001 Kanji
5c3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-3 SKIP code
6080.1 Four corner code
1-22-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5177 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
candy, cakes, fruit
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1719 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 菓 【カ】 fruit, counter for fruit
  • 菓子 【カシ】 confectionery, sweets, candy, cake
  • 製菓 【セイカ】 confectionery production
  • 聖菓 【セイカ】 Christmas cake

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo3
Korean:
gwa

Spanish

  • caramelos
  • dulces
  • pasteles

Portuguese

  • doce
  • bolos
  • frutas

French

  • friandise
  • gâteau
  • fruit
1047 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1616 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3980 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
946 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
868 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1535 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1636 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1667 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
657 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2873 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1482 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1997 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1131 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31168P Morohashi
2302 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5095 New Nelson (John Haig)
1122 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1203 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1478 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-18-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83d3 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
-こ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code