Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
reef, sunken rock
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1977 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 礁 【ショウ】 reef
  • 礁湖 【ショウコ】 barrier lagoon, coral-reef lagoon
  • 環礁 【カンショウ】 atoll, circular coral reef
  • 座礁 【ザショウ】 running aground, being stranded, grounding, beaching

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao1
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • arrecife
  • roca hundida
  • escollo

Portuguese

  • recife
  • rocha submersa

French

  • récif
  • écueil
1413 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1792 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3220 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1706 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1575 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1768 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1900 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1553 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1411 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1588 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
840 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1148 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
565 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24502 Morohashi
1243 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4048 New Nelson (John Haig)
558 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
600 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1878 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3340 2001 Kanji
5a12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-12 SKIP code
1063.1 Four corner code
1-30-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7901 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
lake
Kun:
みずうみ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1344 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 湖 【コ】 lake (in place names)
  • 湖沼 【コショウ】 lake, marsh, wetland, inland waters
  • 汽水湖 【キスイコ】 brackish lake
  • 塩水湖 【エンスイコ】 saltwater or saline lake

Kun reading compounds

  • 湖 【みずうみ】 lake
  • 白鳥の湖 【はくちょうのみずうみ】 Swan Lake (ballet)
  • 白鳥の湖 【はくちょうのみずうみ】 Swan Lake (ballet)

Readings

Japanese names:
うみ、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu2
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • lago

Portuguese

  • lago

French

  • lac
394 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
293 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
276 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1086 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2628 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
573 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
699 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1584 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
467 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
475 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
453 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1220 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
736 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
439 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
551 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
150 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17836 Morohashi
604 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3240 New Nelson (John Haig)
148 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
159 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
396 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a9.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-24-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e56 Unicode hex code