Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
netting, network
Kun:
あみ
On:
モウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1194 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 網 【モウ】 network
  • 網膜 【モウマク】 retina
  • 通信網 【ツウシンモウ】 communications network
  • 鉄条網 【テツジョウモウ】 (barbed) wire entanglements

Kun reading compounds

  • 網 【あみ】 net, netting, web
  • 網戸 【あみど】 window screen, insect screen, mosquito screen, screen, screen door
  • まき網 【まきあみ】 purse seine, round haul net
  • 底引き網 【そこびきあみ】 trawl (net)

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 ずな
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wang3
Korean:
mang

Spanish

  • red
  • emboscada

Portuguese

  • enredar
  • rede

French

  • filet
  • réseau
1855 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1279 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3563 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1282 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1636 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2536 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1612 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1720 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1567 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1545 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1737 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
930 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1255 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1385 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27577X Morohashi
1374 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4527 New Nelson (John Haig)
1373 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1473 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1725 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2753 2001 Kanji
6a8.25 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-8 SKIP code
2792.0 Four corner code
1-44-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7db2 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 杓 【シャク】 ladle, dipper, wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris), cow parsley, keck, Queen Anne's lace
  • 杓子 【シャクシ】 bamboo ladle
  • 柄杓 【ヒシャク】 ladle, dipper, scoop
  • 烏柄杓 【カラスビシャク】 crow dipper (Pinellia ternata)

Kun reading compounds

  • 柄杓 【ひしゃく】 ladle, dipper, scoop

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shao2, biao1
Korean:
pyo, jag

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2187 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1028 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
14466X Morohashi
833 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2558 New Nelson (John Haig)
2510 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2570 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a3.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4792.0 Four corner code
1-28-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6753 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