Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
field
Parts:
Variants:
brush-stroke, picture
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
199 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絵 【エ】 picture, drawing, painting, sketch, image (TV, film, etc.), picture, footage
  • 画家 【ガカ】 painter, artist
  • 洋画 【ヨウガ】 Western painting, Western film, Western movie
  • 邦画 【ホウガ】 Japanese film, Japanese painting
  • 画 【カク】 stroke (of a kanji)
  • 描く 【エガク】 to draw, to paint, to sketch, to depict, to describe, to picture in one's mind, to imagine, to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)
  • 参画 【サンカク】 taking part (in planning), participation
  • 家族計画 【カゾクケイカク】 family planning
  • 絵 【エ】 picture, drawing, painting, sketch, image (TV, film, etc.), picture, footage
  • 描く 【エガク】 to draw, to paint, to sketch, to depict, to describe, to picture in one's mind, to imagine, to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)
  • 似顔絵 【ニガオエ】 portrait, likeness, sketch (of a face)
  • 影絵 【カゲエ】 shadow picture, silhouette, shadowgraph

Kun reading compounds

  • 描く 【えがく】 to draw, to paint, to sketch, to depict, to describe, to picture in one's mind, to imagine, to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)
  • 画する 【かくする】 to draw (a line), to demarcate, to mark, to divide, to map out, to plan

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua4
Korean:
hwa, hoeg

Spanish

  • dibujo
  • trazo
  • puntuar
  • interrumpir

Portuguese

  • gravura

French

  • trait de plume
  • dessin
  • écran
  • compteur de traits de kanji
167 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
91 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
85 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
150 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
50 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
477 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
222 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
991 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.14 Japanese for Busy People
343 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
343 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
235 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
176 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3723 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1904 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2586 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1178 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21739P Morohashi
3000 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3733 New Nelson (John Haig)
1170 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1254 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
176 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
155 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3175 2001 Kanji
0a8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-6 SKIP code
1077.2 Four corner code
1-18-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
753b Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
stand, erect
Parts:
Variants:
dragon, imperial
Kun:
たついせ
On:
リュウリョウロウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1195 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 竜 【リュウ】 dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon), naga, semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, promoted rook
  • 竜王 【リュウオウ】 Dragon King, promoted rook
  • 鎧竜 【ガイリュウ】 ankylosaur (any dinosaur of infraorder Ankylosauria)
  • 青龍 【セイリョウ】 blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology), Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
  • 竜 【リュウ】 dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon), naga, semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, promoted rook
  • 竜駕 【リョウガ】 imperial carriage
  • 青龍 【セイリョウ】 blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology), Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
  • 蛟竜 【コウリョウ】 mizuchi, aquatic, dragon-like beast with four feet, horns and poisonous breath, unfulfilled genius, dormant talent

Kun reading compounds

  • 竜 【りゅう】 dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon), naga, semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, promoted rook
  • 竜巻 【たつまき】 tornado, whirlwind, waterspout, twister
  • 伊勢海老 【いせえび】 spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)

Readings

Japanese names:
りう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
long2
Korean:
ryong, nong

Spanish

  • dragón

Portuguese

  • dragão imperial

French

  • dragon
  • impérial
1899 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1110 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5440 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1992 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1600 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1199 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1758 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1886 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1867 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1930 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2603 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1332 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1805 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
542 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25751 Morohashi
2099 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4232 New Nelson (John Haig)
536 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
575 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1406 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
456 2001 Kanji
5b5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-8 SKIP code
2-5-5 SKIP code
0071.6 Four corner code
1-46-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7adc Unicode hex code