754 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
669 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
640 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1127 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3140 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
674 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1561 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
1637 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
848 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
867 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
976 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1387 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
1504 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
796 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1084 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1479 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
23318 | Morohashi |
1172 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3935 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1467 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1577 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
725 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
1527 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 眼 【ガン】 eye, insight, vision, power of observation, gist, main point, hole
- 眼科 【ガンカ】 ophthalmology
- 主眼 【シュガン】 main purpose, chief aim, focus, main point, gist, essence
- 象嵌 【ゾウガン】 inlay, inlaying, damascening
- 慈眼 【ジゲン】 merciful eye (of a Buddha or a bodhisattva watching humanity)
- 開眼 【カイガン】 enlightenment, spiritual awakening, opening one's eyes to the truth, reaching one's peak (as a performer, etc.), reaching the highest echelons, gaining eyesight, restoring eyesight, opening the eyes, filling out the eyes (of a Buddha) as the last step of consecrating a new statue or picture, ceremony where a newly made image or idol is consecrated
Kun reading compounds
- 眼 【まなこ】 eye, eyeball, pupil and (dark) iris of the eye, insight, perceptivity, power of observation, look, field of vision, core, center, centre, essence
- 血眼 【ちまなこ】 bloodshot eyes, (doing something in a) frenzy
- 百眼 【ひゃくまなこ】 using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period), simple paper mask
- 目 【め】 eye, eyeball, eyesight, sight, vision, look, stare, gaze, glance, notice, attention, observation, eyes (of the world, public, etc.), an experience, viewpoint, discrimination, discernment, judgement, eye (e.g. for quality), (an) appearance, chance (of success), possibility (of a good result), spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.), opening, stitch, texture, weave, grain (of wood, paper), eye (of a storm, needle, etc.), intersection (on a go board), square (on a chessboard), dot (on a dice), pip, rolled number, graduation, division (of a scale), tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.), ordinal number suffix, somewhat, -ish, point (e.g. of change)
- 眼鏡 【めがね】 glasses, eyeglasses, spectacles, judgment, judgement, discrimination, discernment, insight
- 血眼 【ちまなこ】 bloodshot eyes, (doing something in a) frenzy
- 遠目 【とおめ】 distant view, looking from a distance, being able to see a long distance, good long-distance vision, farsightedness
Readings
- Korean:
- an
Spanish
- ojo
- vista
- perspicacia
- punto principal
Portuguese
- globo ocular
French
- globe oculaire
3965 | 2001 Kanji |
5c6.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-5-6 | SKIP code |
6703.2 | Four corner code |
1-20-67 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
773c | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
812 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 裏 【リ】 in (e.g. secret), with (e.g. success)
- 裏面 【リメン】 back (side), reverse, the inside, background, dark side (e.g. of society), behind the scenes, beneath the surface
- 内裏 【ダイリ】 imperial palace, festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
- 影裏 【エイリ】 shade
Kun reading compounds
- 裏 【うら】 opposite side, bottom, other side, side hidden from view, undersurface, reverse side, rear, back, behind, lining, inside, in the shadows, behind the scenes, offstage, behind (someone's) back, more (to something than meets the eye), hidden side (e.g. of one's personality), unknown circumstances, different side, proof, opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.), contrary, inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.), bottom (of an inning), last half (of an inning)
- 裏方 【うらかた】 someone working behind-the-scenes, scene shifter, lady consort (to a high personage)
- 舞台裏 【ぶたいうら】 offstage, backstage, behind the scenes
- 口裏 【くちうら】 determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning, determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech, divining good or bad luck from listening to someone
Readings
- Korean:
- ri
Spanish
- reverso
- opuesto
- parte interior
- en esa situación
- interior
Portuguese
- costas
- no meio de
- em
- inverter
- interior
- palma
- atrás
- forro
- lado errado
French
- arrière
- revers
- verso
- intérieur
- semelle
- paume
- envers
- doublure
- mauvais côté
1002 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
992 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
755 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
327 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1076 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
883 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
2176 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
273 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
273 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
436 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1627 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2652 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1354 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1836 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
406 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
34294 | Morohashi |
2138 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
5462 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
399 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
426 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
969 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
465 | 2001 Kanji |
2j11.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-2-11 | SKIP code |
0073.2 | Four corner code |
1-46-02 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
88cf | Unicode hex code |