Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
dish
Parts:
basin, lantern festival, tray
On:
ボン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1654 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 盆 【ボン】 tray, family, household, Obon, Bon Festival, Lantern Festival, Festival of the Dead, gambler's den
  • 盆栽 【ボンサイ】 bonsai, miniature potted plant
  • 旧盆 【キュウボン】 Bon Festival of the lunar calendar
  • 海盆 【カイボン】 ocean basin

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pen2
Korean:
bun

Spanish

  • bandeja
  • fiesta de las linternas

Portuguese

  • bacia
  • bandeja

French

  • bassin
  • fête des lanternes (oBon)
  • plateau
1828 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1873 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
594 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1087 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1552 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1099 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1150 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1314 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1369 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2581 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1317 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1788 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1461 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22959 Morohashi
2079 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3889 New Nelson (John Haig)
1449 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1557 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1285 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2074 2001 Kanji
2o7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-7 SKIP code
2-4-5 SKIP code
8010.7 Four corner code
1-43-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
76c6 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
plum
Kun:
うめ
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1232 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 梅雨 【ツユ】 (East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July), rain during the rainy season
  • 梅雨前線 【バイウゼンセン】 seasonal rain front
  • 松竹梅 【ショウチクバイ】 pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping), high, middle and low (ranking), top, middle and bottom, upper, medium, lower, first, second and third (class)
  • 紅梅 【コウバイ】 red-blossomed plum tree, red Japanese apricot

Kun reading compounds

  • 梅 【うめ】 Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), Japanese plum, ume, Chinese plum, lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
  • 梅干し 【うめぼし】 umeboshi, pickled dried ume, pickled dried plum
  • 青梅 【あおうめ】 unripe plum
  • 紅梅 【こうばい】 red-blossomed plum tree, red Japanese apricot

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei2
Korean:
mae

Spanish

  • ciruela
  • ciruelo

Portuguese

  • ameixa

French

  • prune
592 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1689 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1009 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2258 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1162 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1436 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1374 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1734 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1856 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
969 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1096 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1159 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
626 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
833 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
470 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14795P Morohashi
925 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2666 New Nelson (John Haig)
460 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
499 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
555 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1847 2001 Kanji
4a6.27 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
4895.7 Four corner code
1-39-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6885 Unicode hex code