Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
dish
Parts:
Variants:
steal, rob, pilfer
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
1051 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 盗聴 【トウチョウ】 interception (email), wiretap, bug
  • 盗賊 【トウゾク】 thief, robber, burglar, bandit
  • 怪盗 【カイトウ】 mysterious thief, phantom thief
  • 劫盗 【ゴウトウ】 robbery, robber

Kun reading compounds

  • 盗む 【ぬすむ】 to steal, to plagiarize, to steal (a technique, idea, etc.), to watch and learn, to do stealthily, to do during scant time, to steal a base
  • 盗み 【ぬすみ】 stealing, theft
  • 盗み足 【ぬすみあし】 stealthy steps

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dao4
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • robo
  • robar
  • ratear
  • sisar

Portuguese

  • roubar
  • roubo
  • furtar

French

  • vol
  • dérober
  • chaparder
1649 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
957 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3115 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1026 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
757 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1100 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1151 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
268 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1372 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3309 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1714 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2327 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1463 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23000 Morohashi
2670 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3894 New Nelson (John Haig)
1451 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1559 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1465 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
374 2001 Kanji
5h6.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-5 SKIP code
3710.7 Four corner code
1-37-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
76d7 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
read
Kun:
よ.む-よ.み
On:
ドクトクトウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
  • 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
  • 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
  • 読点 【トウテン】 comma
  • 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
  • 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)

Kun reading compounds

  • 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

Readings

Japanese names:
よみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du2, dou4
Korean:
dog, du

Spanish

  • leer

Portuguese

  • leia

French

  • lire
123 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
206 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
189 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
484 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4375 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
55 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
88 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2142 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
244 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
244 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
180 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1689 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1943 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1038 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
354 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35580P Morohashi
1541 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5629 New Nelson (John Haig)
348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
372 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
323 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
233 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
7a7.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0461.2 Four corner code
1-38-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8aad Unicode hex code