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On reading compounds

  • 緞子 【ドンス】 silk damask, satin damask
  • 緞帳 【ドンチョウ】 thick curtain, drop curtain

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
duan4
Korean:
dan, ha

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3578 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
27646 Morohashi
4546 New Nelson (John Haig)
6a9.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
2794.7 Four corner code
1-69-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7dde Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
turban, scarf
Parts:
Variants:
notebook, account book, album, curtain, veil, net, tent
Kun:
とばり
On:
チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N1
1459 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 帳 【チョウ】 book, register
  • 帳消し 【チョウケシ】 writing off (a debt), cancellation, balancing the books, cancelling out (gains or losses), making even, making up (for), offsetting, undoing, wiping out
  • 記帳 【キチョウ】 registry, entry, book-keeping, signature
  • 台帳 【ダイチョウ】 account book, ledger, register

Kun reading compounds

  • 帳 【とばり】 curtain, hanging, bunting
  • 夜の帳 【よるのとばり】 veil of darkness, curtain of night

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhang4
Korean:
jang

Spanish

  • registro
  • libro de cuentas

Portuguese

  • caderno
  • livro contábil
  • álbum

French

  • cahier
  • livre de comptes
  • album
470 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
368 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
347 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1181 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1478 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
851 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1251 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1107 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1159 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1184 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
567 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
572 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
347 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
430 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1941 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8939 Morohashi
473 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1568 New Nelson (John Haig)
1922 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2072 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
381 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1665 2001 Kanji
3f8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
4123.2 Four corner code
1-36-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e33 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
step
Parts:
duty, war, campaign, drafted labor, office, service, role
On:
ヤクエキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
315 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 役 【ヤク】 role, assignment, responsibility, duty, function, job, service, position (of responsibility), post, office, part (in a play, film, etc.), role, character, scoring combination, hand, yaku, meld
  • 役員 【ヤクイン】 director, executive, officer, official, person in charge
  • 悪役 【アクヤク】 villain, baddie, the villain's part
  • 大役 【タイヤク】 important task, important role, great duty, important mission, major part (in a film, play, etc.), leading role, high-scoring combination
  • 役 【エキ】 war, campaign, battle, unpaid work (ritsuryō system), forced labor
  • 役務 【エキム】 labor, labour, service
  • 荷役 【ニエキ】 handling cargo, loading and unloading
  • 就役 【シュウエキ】 being placed on duty, going into commission (of a warship, freighter, etc.), being placed in commission

Readings

Japanese names:
ちゃく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
yeog

Spanish

  • oficio
  • deber
  • servicio
  • papel
  • (guerra)

Portuguese

  • dever
  • guerra
  • campanha
  • esboço
  • escritório
  • serviço
  • papel

French

  • rôle
  • fonctions
  • guerre
  • campagne
  • corvée
  • poste
  • service
324 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
419 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
397 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
315 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1598 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
171 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
519 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
368 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
375 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
376 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
609 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
620 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
288 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
181 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
217 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
893 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10057 Morohashi
244 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1726 New Nelson (John Haig)
884 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
949 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
266 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
290 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2068 2001 Kanji
3i4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
2724.7 Four corner code
1-44-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5f79 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
old 老 (耂)
Parts:
Variants:
someone, person
Kun:
もの
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
38 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 者 【シャ】 person, -er, expert, geisha, prostitute
  • 芸者 【ゲイシャ】 geisha, professional female entertainer, usu. at traditional banquets
  • 加害者 【カガイシャ】 perpetrator, wrong-doer, aggressor, assailant, offender

Kun reading compounds

  • 者 【もの】 person
  • 者ども 【ものども】 you, people
  • 弱き者 【よわきもの】 weak person, the weak
  • 若い者 【わかいもの】 young person, young people, youth, youngsters, young employee, young manservant, young follower

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhe3
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • persona

Portuguese

  • alguém
  • pessoa

French

  • personne
  • quelqu'un
235 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
314 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
298 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
22 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3685 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
56 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
240 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
769 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.6 Japanese for Busy People
164 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
164 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
148 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1578 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3980 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2047 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2765 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1264 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28852 Morohashi
3211 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4698 New Nelson (John Haig)
1256 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1345 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
19 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
302 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1478 2001 Kanji
4c4.13 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-4 SKIP code
4-8-2 SKIP code
2-4-4 SKIP code
4460.0 Four corner code
1-28-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8005 Unicode hex code