Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
eye
Parts:
blind, blind man, ignoramus
Kun:
めくら
On:
モウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1767 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 盲 【モウ】 blindness
  • 盲学校 【モウガッコウ】 school for the blind
  • 全盲 【ゼンモウ】 total blindness
  • 衆盲 【シュウモウ】 the blind masses, the ignorant masses, the unenlightened masses, many blind people

Kun reading compounds

  • 盲 【めくら】 blindness, blind person, illiteracy, illiterate person, ignorance, ignoramus
  • 盲穴 【めくらあな】 blind hole
  • 俄盲 【にわかめくら】 sudden blindness, one suddenly blinded
  • 作り盲 【つくりめくら】 feigned blindness

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mang2
Korean:
maeng

Spanish

  • ciego
  • analfabeto
  • irresponsable

Portuguese

  • cortina
  • homem cego
  • ignorante

French

  • aveugle
  • ignorant
1852 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1499 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
297 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1177 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1558 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
936 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1375 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1462 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1278 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1378 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2547 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1298 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1767 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
497 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23132X Morohashi
2053 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3907 New Nelson (John Haig)
486 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
525 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1210 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
479 2001 Kanji
2j6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
0060.1 Four corner code
1-44-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
76f2 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
广
Variants:
calendar, almanac
Kun:
こよみ
On:
レキリャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1765 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 暦 【コヨミ】 calendar, almanac
  • 暦年 【レキネン】 calendar year, civil year, time, year after year
  • 還暦 【カンレキ】 kanreki, one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
  • 改暦 【カイレキ】 calendar reform, adoption of a new calendar system, new calendar (for a new year), new year
  • 暦応 【リャクオウ】 Ryakuō era (of the Northern Court; 1338.8.28-1342.4.27), Rekiō era
  • 暦仁 【リャクニン】 Ryakunin era (1238.11.23-1239.2.7)
  • 永暦 【エイリャク】 Eiryaku era (1160.1.10-1161.9.4)
  • 康暦 【コウリャク】 Kōryaku era (of the Northern Court; 1379.3.22-1381.2.24)

Kun reading compounds

  • 暦 【こよみ】 calendar, almanac
  • 暦改正 【こよみかいせい】 calendar reform

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ryeog

Spanish

  • calendario
  • almanaque

Portuguese

  • calendário
  • almanaque

French

  • calendrier
  • almanach
1927 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1793 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
833 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1383 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1411 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2235 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1534 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1635 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1720 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
980 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3747 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1912 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2599 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
217 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14111P Morohashi
3018 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2507 New Nelson (John Haig)
213 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
226 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1707 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3378 2001 Kanji
2p12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-12 SKIP code
7126.9 Four corner code
1-46-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66a6 Unicode hex code