Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
white
Parts:
emperor
On:
コウオウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
721 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 皇后 【コウゴウ】 (Japanese) empress, queen
  • 皇居 【コウキョ】 Imperial Palace (of Japan), imperial residence
  • 倉皇 【ソウコウ】 hurriedly, in a hurry, in great haste
  • 教皇 【キョウコウ】 Pope
  • 皇帝 【コウテイ】 emperor
  • 皇子 【オウジ】 imperial prince
  • 法皇 【ホウオウ】 cloistered emperor, ex-emperor who has become a monk
  • 太上法皇 【ダイジョウホウオウ】 cloistered emperor, ex-emperor who has become a monk

Readings

Japanese names:
おうじ、 おお、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huang2
Korean:
hwang, wang

Spanish

  • emperador

Portuguese

  • imperador

French

  • empereur
783 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
871 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
861 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
964 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3100 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
460 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1551 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
964 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
297 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
297 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
579 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1366 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3175 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1635 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2223 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
267 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22701 Morohashi
2566 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3870 New Nelson (John Haig)
261 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
279 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
880 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
872 2001 Kanji
4f5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
2610.4 Four corner code
1-25-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7687 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
descendent, issue, offspring
Kun:
たね
On:
イン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 胤裔 【インエイ】 successor, descendant
  • 後胤 【コウイン】 descendant, scion
  • 皇胤 【コウイン】 Imperial descendant (posterity)

Kun reading compounds

  • 胤 【たね】 issue, offspring, paternal blood
  • 種違い 【たねちがい】 half- (sibling by a different father), uterine, maternal

Readings

Japanese names:
つぎ、 つぐ、 かず
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin4
Korean:
yun

Spanish

  • progenie
  • descendencia

Portuguese

French

217 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1912 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1269 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2205 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
17 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
8 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
8 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29405 Morohashi
17 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4786 New Nelson (John Haig)
2921 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2929 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b5.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-8 SKIP code
2201.0 Four corner code
1-16-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80e4 Unicode hex code