Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
广
grind, polish, scour, improve, brush (teeth)
Kun:
みが.くす.る
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1608 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 摩耗 【マモウ】 wear, abrasion
  • 磨羯宮 【マカツキュウ】 Capricorn (10th zodiacal sign), the Goat
  • 琢磨 【タクマ】 polish (jewels), cultivation
  • 達磨 【ダルマ】 daruma, tumbling doll, round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted, Bodhidharma, prostitute

Kun reading compounds

  • 磨く 【みがく】 to polish, to shine, to burnish, to scour, to scrub, to brush (teeth), to grind (e.g. a lens), to refine (a skill, etc.), to improve, to hone, to polish (up), to cultivate (one's character)
  • 擦る 【する】 to rub, to chafe, to strike (match), to file, to frost (glass), to lose (e.g. a match), to forfeit, to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
おさむ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mo2, mo4
Korean:
ma

Spanish

  • pulido
  • abrillantado
  • pulir
  • abrillantar
  • lavarse los dientes

Portuguese

  • moer
  • polir
  • explorar
  • melhorar
  • escovar (dentes)

French

  • polir
  • moudre
  • récurer
  • améliorer
  • brosser (dents)
1831 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1376 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5393 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1985 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
768 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2596 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1531 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1632 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1731 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1410 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3946 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2033 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2744 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
601 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24449P Morohashi
3181 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4045 New Nelson (John Haig)
594 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
638 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1840 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
577 2001 Kanji
3q13.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-13 SKIP code
3-11-5 SKIP code
0026.1 Four corner code
1-43-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
78e8 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
fluid, liquid, juice, sap, secretion
On:
エキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1210 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 液 【エキ】 liquid, fluid
  • 液化 【エキカ】 liquefaction
  • 乳液 【ニュウエキ】 latex (milky fluid found in plants), milky lotion (cosmetic), body milk
  • 体液 【タイエキ】 body fluid, semen

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ye4, yi4
Korean:
aeg

Spanish

  • líquido
  • fluido

Portuguese

  • fluido
  • líquido
  • suco
  • graxa
  • secreção

French

  • liquide
  • jus
  • fluide
  • sève
  • sécrétion
552 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
649 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
620 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1131 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2599 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
659 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
688 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
472 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
480 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
906 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1203 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
622 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
375 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
468 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1047 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17586 Morohashi
511 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3199 New Nelson (John Haig)
1038 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1116 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
724 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
367 2001 Kanji
3a8.29 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3014.7 Four corner code
1-17-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6db2 Unicode hex code