Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
tile
Parts:
tile, gram
Kun:
かわらぐらむ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1850 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 瓦斯 【ガス】 gas (as a fuel), gas (state of matter), poison gas, dense fog, thick fog, gas stove, gas cooker, gas range, gasoline, gas, petrol, flatulence, gas, wind, fart, gassed yarn
  • 瓦礫 【ガレキ】 rubble, debris, wreckage, tiles and pebbles, trash, rubbish
  • 鞍橋 【クラボネ】 saddle tree
  • 舗装煉瓦 【ホソウレンガ】 paving brick

Kun reading compounds

  • 瓦 【かわら】 roof tile
  • 瓦状 【かわらがさね】 imbricate, tegular, overlapping
  • 瓦 【グラム】 gram, gramme

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wa3, wa4
Korean:
wa

Spanish

  • teja

Portuguese

French

  • tuile
  • gramme
2977 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
201 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1216 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4288 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2918 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1040 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21438 Morohashi
3476 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3690 New Nelson (John Haig)
1031 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1108 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
1071.7 Four corner code
1011.7 Four corner code
1-20-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
74e6 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:
Variants:
kiln, oven, furnace
Kun:
かま
On:
ヨウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2072 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 窯業 【ヨウギョウ】 ceramics, ceramic industry
  • 窯変 【ヨウヘン】 deformation during firing (ceramics), color variation during firing
  • 瓦窯 【ガヨウ】 tile kiln
  • 官窯 【カンヨウ】 governmental porcelain furnace

Kun reading compounds

  • 窯 【かま】 stove, furnace, kiln
  • 窯元 【かまもと】 pottery (i.e. the place), potter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao2
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • horno

Portuguese

  • fornalha
  • forno

French

  • four
  • four à poterie
  • fournaise
1881 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2045 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3336 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1821 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1599 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1789 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1925 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1900 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1458 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2986 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1528 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2081 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1337 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25594 Morohashi
2361 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4210 New Nelson (John Haig)
1325 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1423 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1788 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
740 2001 Kanji
3m12.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-12 SKIP code
2-11-4 SKIP code
3033.1 Four corner code
1-45-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7aaf Unicode hex code