Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
sticky, glutinous, greasy, persevere
Kun:
ねば.る
On:
ネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1410 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 粘膜 【ネンマク】 mucous membrane
  • 粘土 【ネンド】 clay

Kun reading compounds

  • 粘る 【ねばる】 to be sticky, to be adhesive, to persevere, to persist, to stick to, to hold out, to linger

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian2, zhan1
Korean:
jeom

Spanish

  • perseverancia
  • tenacidad
  • pegajoso
  • perseverar
  • ser tenaz
  • ser pegajoso

Portuguese

  • grudento
  • aglutinado
  • gorduroso
  • perseverar

French

  • collant
  • gluant
  • graisseux
  • persévérer
1679 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1859 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3472 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1644 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1612 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1707 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1824 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1559 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1497 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1681 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
893 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1212 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
930 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
26901 Morohashi
1327 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4393 New Nelson (John Haig)
921 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
989 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1470 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1077 2001 Kanji
6b5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
9196.0 Four corner code
1-39-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c98 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

9 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
placenta, sac, sheath
On:
ホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1379 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 胞子 【ホウシ】 spore
  • 胞衣 【エナ】 afterbirth, placenta
  • 卵胞 【ランポウ】 (ovarian) follicle
  • 肺胞 【ハイホウ】 pulmonary alveolus, alveoli, air cell, air sac

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bao1
Korean:
po

Spanish

  • estómago de la mujer
  • placenta
  • vaina

Portuguese

  • placenta
  • bolsa
  • estojo

French

  • placenta
  • cavité
  • gaine
1796 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1764 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3749 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1237 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1673 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1284 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1358 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1630 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1029 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1148 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
620 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
826 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
537 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29396P Morohashi
917 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4788 New Nelson (John Haig)
531 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
570 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1266 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3956 2001 Kanji
4b5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-5 SKIP code
7721.2 Four corner code
1-43-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80de Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
-こ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
insect, bug, temper
Kun:
むし
On:
チュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1351 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 虫垂炎 【チュウスイエン】 appendicitis
  • 虫えい 【チュウエイ】 gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
  • 幼虫 【ヨウチュウ】 larva, grub, maggot
  • 寄生虫 【キセイチュウ】 parasite
  • 虫部 【キブ】 insect radical, worm radical
  • 蟻巻 【アリマキ】 aphid, plant louse, plant lice

Kun reading compounds

  • 虫 【むし】 insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm, roundworm, thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious, nervousness, fretfulness, person devoted to one thing, single-minded person, valve core, mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
  • 虫歯 【むしば】 tooth decay, cavity, decayed tooth, dental caries
  • 苦虫 【にがむし】 bitter-tasting bug
  • 馬追虫 【うまおいむし】 Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid), Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chong2, hui3
Korean:
hwe, chung

Spanish

  • insecto
  • bicho

Portuguese

  • inseto
  • bichinho
  • temperamento

French

  • insecte
  • vermine
  • ver
  • reptile
  • colère
114 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
74 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
56 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1073 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4115 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
133 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
875 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
324 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
873 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
893 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
466 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1604 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4343 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2199 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2959 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
523 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32804 Morohashi
3530 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5275 New Nelson (John Haig)
517 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
556 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
60 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1671 2001 Kanji
6d0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-3 SKIP code
2-4-2 SKIP code
5013.6 Four corner code
1-35-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
866b Unicode hex code