Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
chopsticks
Kun:
はし
On:
チョチャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2156 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 匕箸 【ヒチョ】 spoon and chopsticks

Kun reading compounds

  • 箸 【はし】 chopsticks
  • 箸洗い 【はしあらい】 simple and light soup taken between courses in a kaiseki meal, or during a formal tea ceremony
  • マイ箸 【マイばし】 one's own chopsticks, washable chopsticks carried in a case (used instead of disposable chopsticks)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu4
Korean:
jeo

Spanish

  • palillos (para comer o cocinar)

Portuguese

French

3422 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2381 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1932 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3359 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2363 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26224X Morohashi
2708 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4301 New Nelson (John Haig)
2640 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-9 SKIP code
8860.4 Four corner code
8860.3 Four corner code
1-40-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7bb8 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
Variants:
revolve, turn around, change
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
327 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 転 【テン】 change in pronunciation or meaning of a word, sound change, word with an altered pronunciation or meaning, turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
  • 転移 【テンイ】 moving (location, with the times, etc.), change, transition, metastasis, spread, transition (e.g. phase transition), transfer (of learning), transference (in psychoanalysis)
  • 不退転 【フタイテン】 determination, conviction
  • 大回転 【ダイカイテン】 giant slalom, big rotation

Kun reading compounds

  • 転がる 【ころがる】 to roll, to tumble, to fall over, to roll over, to lie down, to be scattered about, to be lying around, (of a situation or outcome) to change, to turn out, to come easily, to be common, to fall into one's hands, to grow on trees
  • 転がる石には苔は付かない 【ころがるいしにはこけはつかない】 a rolling stone gathers no moss
  • 転げる 【ころげる】 to roll over, to tumble, to roll about (with laughter)
  • 転がす 【ころがす】 to roll, to wheel, to trundle, to drive (a car), to turn over, to tip over, to throw down, to leave, to buy and sell (quickly for a profit)
  • 転ぶ 【ころぶ】 to fall down, to fall over, to turn out, to play out, to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism), to apostatize, to roll, to tumble, (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret
  • 転ぶ 【ころぶ】 to fall down, to fall over, to turn out, to play out, to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism), to apostatize, to roll, to tumble, (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret
  • 転 【うたた】 more and more, increasingly, all the more
  • うたた寝 【うたたね】 doze, nap, snooze
  • 眩く 【くるめく】 to feel dizzy, to feel faint, to spin, to revolve, to twirl

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhuan3, zhuai3, zhuan4
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

  • cambiar
  • girar
  • rodar
  • caerse
  • tropezar
  • dar vueltas
  • volcarse
  • caer

Portuguese

  • revolver
  • voltar a ser
  • mudança

French

  • rouler
  • tourner
  • changer
479 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
375 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
354 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
339 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4615 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
515 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
257 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1656 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.16 Japanese for Busy People
433 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
439 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
65 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1773 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1872 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
995 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1346 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
427 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38234P Morohashi
1480 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5948 New Nelson (John Haig)
420 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
449 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
383 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1571 2001 Kanji
7c4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
5103.1 Four corner code
1-37-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ee2 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
pestle
Parts:
Variants:
year, counter for years
Kun:
とし
On:
ネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
6 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 年 【ネン】 year, counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school), period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
  • 年会 【ネンカイ】 conference, annual convention
  • 往年 【オウネン】 years gone by, earlier years, former years, the past
  • 平年 【ヘイネン】 non-leap year, average year (for rainfall, temperature, etc.), normal year

Kun reading compounds

  • 年 【とし】 year, age, years, past one's prime, old age
  • 年明け 【としあけ】 beginning of the year, early in the New Year
  • いい年 【いいとし】 mature age, advanced age, maturity, age when one is old enough to know better
  • 御年 【おんとし】 age (esp. advanced)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian2
Korean:
nyeon

Spanish

  • año
  • edad

Portuguese

  • Ano

French

  • année
  • compteur d'années
126 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
20 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
64 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
3 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
188 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
64 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
51 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
342 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
45 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
45 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
24 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
574 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2528 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1284 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1752 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1045 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9168 Morohashi
2035 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1593 New Nelson (John Haig)
1036 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1114 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
13 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
51 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2355 2001 Kanji
0a6.16 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
4-6-3 SKIP code
8050.0 Four corner code
1-39-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e74 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
time, about, toward
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2015 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 頃 【ケイ】 qing (Chinese unit of land area equal to 100 mu)
  • 頃刻 【ケイコク】 short period
  • 万頃 【バンケイ】 vast expanse

Kun reading compounds

  • 頃 【ころ】 (approximate) time, around, about, toward, suitable time (or condition), time of year, season
  • 頃おい 【ころおい】 time, period, days
  • 幼い頃 【おさないころ】 when one was a very young child, very early in one's life
  • 間もない頃 【まもないころ】 in the early period (of something), at the beginning
  • 頃 【ころ】 (approximate) time, around, about, toward, suitable time (or condition), time of year, season
  • 今日この頃 【きょうこのごろ】 these days, nowadays, recently
  • 使い頃 【つかいごろ】 handy

Readings

Japanese names:
ころも
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing3, qing1
Korean:
gyeong, gyu

Spanish

  • tiempo
  • aproximadamente
  • hacia
  • sobre

Portuguese

French

  • temps
  • époque
  • environ
  • vers
1691 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
754 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1906 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1532 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
163 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
124 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
453 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43338 Morohashi
144 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6615 New Nelson (John Haig)
2791 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
479 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
291 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
9a2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-9 SKIP code
2178.6 Four corner code
1-26-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9803 Unicode hex code