Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
stand, erect
Parts:
juvenile, child
Kun:
わらべ
On:
ドウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1138 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 童話 【ドウワ】 children's story, fairy tale
  • 童謡 【ドウヨウ】 children's song, nursery rhyme
  • 天童 【テンドウ】 cherub, gods disguised as children, children parading as cherubs
  • 悪童 【アクドウ】 bad boy, naughty child, brat

Kun reading compounds

  • 童 【わらべ】 child
  • わらべ歌 【わらべうた】 children's song, nursery song
  • 京童 【きょうわらべ】 Kyoto's children, Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext
  • 小童 【こわっぱ】 boy, child, youth, brat

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tong2
Korean:
dong

Spanish

  • niño
  • chiquillo

Portuguese

  • juvenil
  • criança

French

  • jeune
  • enfant
487 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
385 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
363 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3357 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
643 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
788 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1743 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
410 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
416 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1026 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1461 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2639 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1348 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1828 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
443 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25775 Morohashi
2130 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4239 New Nelson (John Haig)
436 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
468 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
408 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
472 2001 Kanji
5b7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-10 SKIP code
2-5-7 SKIP code
0010.4 Four corner code
1-38-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7ae5 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
song, sing, ballad, noh chanting
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1580 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 謡曲 【ヨウキョク】 noh song
  • 民謡 【ミンヨウ】 folk song, popular song
  • 歌謡 【カヨウ】 song, ballad

Kun reading compounds

  • 謡 【うたい】 noh chanting, recitation
  • 謡物 【うたいもの】 utai (noh chant) piece for recitation
  • 地謡 【じうたい】 noh chorus
  • 素謡 【すうたい】 bare noh chanting, vocal-only noh theater performance, with no dancing or instruments, unaccompanied utai
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao2
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • canto del teatro Noh
  • canto melódico
  • cantar

Portuguese

  • Canto de teatro noh

French

  • chanter
  • chant Noh
1883 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1531 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4410 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1071 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1768 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2642 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1647 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1760 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1788 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1704 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2011 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1071 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1445 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1987 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35779P Morohashi
1597 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5666 New Nelson (John Haig)
1968 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2119 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1854 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3076 2001 Kanji
7a9.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-9 SKIP code
0267.2 Four corner code
1-45-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8b21 Unicode hex code