466 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
362 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
342 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
789 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3172 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
261 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
230 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
1633 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
215 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
215 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
90 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1395 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
1515 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
801 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1093 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1454 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
23978 | Morohashi |
1182 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3982 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1442 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1550 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
403 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
689 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 短 【タン】 fault, defect, weak point, minor, 5-point card, short
- 短歌 【タンカ】 tanka, 31-mora Japanese poem
- 長短 【チョウタン】 (relative) length, advantages and disadvantages, pluses and minuses, strong and weak points, merits and demerits
- 車高短 【シャコウタン】 lowered car, car with lowered suspension
Kun reading compounds
- 短い 【みじかい】 short, brief
Readings
- Korean:
- dan
Spanish
- pequeño
- breve
- defecto
- corto
Portuguese
- curto
- brevidade
- falta
- defeito
- ponto fraco
French
- court
- bref
- faute
- défaut
- point faible
2373 | 2001 Kanji |
3d9.27 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-5-7 | SKIP code |
8141.8 | Four corner code |
1-35-27 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
77ed | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N1
1794 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 刀 【カタナ】 sword (esp. Japanese single-edged), katana, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
- 刀剣 【トウケン】 sword, dagger, knife, bayonet
- 小刀 【コガタナ】 (small) knife, short sword, small sword
- 太刀 【タチ】 long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai), large sword, straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier), guandao, Chinese glaive
Kun reading compounds
- 刀 【かたな】 sword (esp. Japanese single-edged), katana, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
- 刀折れ矢尽きて 【かたなおれやつきて】 having exhausted every available means, having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows
- 一刀 【いっとう】 sword, blade, single stroke
- 返す刀 【かえすかたな】 attacking one opponent then immediately attacking another
- 剃刀 【かみそり】 razor
- オッカムの剃刀 【オッカムのかみそり】 Occam's razor, Ockham's razor
Readings
- Japanese names:
- き、 ち、 と、 わき
- Korean:
- do
Spanish
- espada
Portuguese
- espada
- sabre
- faca
French
- épée
- sabre
- couteau
289 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
198 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
181 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1494 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
665 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
34 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1088 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
12 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
37 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
37 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
441 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
177 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3642 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1857 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2534 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
84 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
1845 | Morohashi |
2926 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
448 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
83 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
87 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
81 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
3545 | 2001 Kanji |
2f0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-1-1 | SKIP code |
4-2-1 | SKIP code |
1722.0 | Four corner code |
1-37-65 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5200 | Unicode hex code |