Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:
Variants:
kiln, oven, furnace
Kun:
かま
On:
ヨウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2072 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 窯業 【ヨウギョウ】 ceramics, ceramic industry
  • 窯変 【ヨウヘン】 deformation during firing (ceramics), color variation during firing
  • 瓦窯 【ガヨウ】 tile kiln
  • 官窯 【カンヨウ】 governmental porcelain furnace

Kun reading compounds

  • 窯 【かま】 stove, furnace, kiln
  • 窯元 【かまもと】 pottery (i.e. the place), potter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao2
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • horno

Portuguese

  • fornalha
  • forno

French

  • four
  • four à poterie
  • fournaise
1881 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2045 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3336 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1821 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1599 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1789 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1925 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1900 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1458 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2986 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1528 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2081 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1337 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25594 Morohashi
2361 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4210 New Nelson (John Haig)
1325 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1423 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1788 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
740 2001 Kanji
3m12.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-12 SKIP code
2-11-4 SKIP code
3033.1 Four corner code
1-45-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7aaf Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
go
Parts:
Variants:
unusual, change, strange
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
238 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 変 【ヘン】 strange, odd, peculiar, weird, curious, eccentric, funny, suspicious, fishy, unexpected, change, incident, disturbance, disaster, accident, emergency, flat
  • 変化 【ヘンカ】 change, variation, alteration, mutation, transition, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, variety, diversity, inflection, declension, conjugation, sidestepping
  • 政変 【セイヘン】 political disturbance, political change, change of government, political upheaval, overthrowing of a government, coup d'état, coup, revolution
  • 異変 【イヘン】 unusual event, strange occurrence, strange phenomenon, something abnormal, change (for the worse), accident, disaster

Kun reading compounds

  • 変わる 【かわる】 to change, to be transformed, to be altered, to vary, to move to, to be different, to be uncommon, to be unusual
  • 変わり 【かわり】 change, alteration, difference, distinction, something wrong, abnormality, unusual event, accident, incident
  • 変わり種 【かわりだね】 something out of the ordinary, variant, variety, exception, novelty, person with an unusual character or background, unique figure, exceptional type, eccentric, oddball
  • 変える 【かえる】 to change, to alter, to transform, to convert, to turn, to vary, to reform, to revise, to amend

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bian4
Korean:
byeon

Spanish

  • inusual
  • extraño
  • cambio
  • cambiar
  • alterar
  • modificar

Portuguese

  • raro
  • mudança
  • estranhar

French

  • insolite
  • étrange
  • changer
509 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
609 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
581 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
324 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
306 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
191 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
443 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
970 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
257 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
257 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
222 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
401 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2569 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1311 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1782 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1761 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5703 Morohashi
2069 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1119 New Nelson (John Haig)
1745 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1882 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
254 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
532 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
467 2001 Kanji
2j7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-7 SKIP code
2-6-3 SKIP code
0024.7 Four corner code
0040.7 Four corner code
1-42-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5909 Unicode hex code