Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
field
Parts:
world, boundary
On:
カイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
158 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 界 【カイ】 community, circles, world, kingdom, erathem, field (electrical), border, boundary, division
  • 界隈 【カイワイ】 neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity
  • 球界 【キュウカイ】 the baseball world
  • 経済界 【ケイザイカイ】 economic world, financial circles, business community

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jie4
Korean:
gye

Spanish

  • borde
  • frontera
  • extensión
  • ámbito

Portuguese

  • mundo

French

  • monde
170 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
260 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
240 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
170 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2998 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
269 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
223 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
967 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.8 Japanese for Busy People
454 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
461 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
157 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1336 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3172 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1632 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
257 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21775 Morohashi
2563 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3739 New Nelson (John Haig)
251 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
266 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
164 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
320 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3654 2001 Kanji
5f4.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
6022.8 Four corner code
1-19-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
754c Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
corner, nook, recess
Kun:
くますみ
On:
ワイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2311 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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Kun reading compounds

  • 隈 【くま】 corner, nook, recess, shade, shadow, dark area, dark circles (under the eyes), dark rings, bend (in a road, river, etc.), shading, gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles
  • 隈なく 【くまなく】 all over, everywhere, in every nook and cranny
  • 目のクマ 【めのクマ】 dark circles around the eyes, periorbital dark circles

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wei1
Korean:
oe

Spanish

  • esquina
  • rincón
  • hueco
  • rabillo del ojo

Portuguese

French

5008 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1841 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
763 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
571 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
41748 Morohashi
6466 New Nelson (John Haig)
2427 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2505 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3665 2001 Kanji
2d9.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
7623.2 Four corner code
1-23-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9688 Unicode hex code