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翁

10 strokes
Radical:
feather 羽
Parts:
ハ 冫 厶 羽
venerable old man
Kun:
おきな
On:
オウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2064 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 翁 【オキナ】 old man, venerable gentleman, venerable, old, father
  • 翁媼 【オウオウ】 old man and old woman, elderly man and elderly woman
  • 阿翁 【アオウ】 father-in-law (of a woman), grandfather
  • 白頭翁 【ハクトウオウ】 windflower, anemone, white-haired old man, grey starling (gray)

Kun reading compounds

  • 翁 【おきな】 old man, venerable gentleman, venerable, old, father
  • 翁恵比須 【おきなえびす】 Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 おな
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
weng1
Korean:
ong

Spanish

  • anciano

Portuguese

  • velho venerável

French

  • vénérable vieillard
1037 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2004 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
596 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1594 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1430 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1930 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2115 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1940 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1571 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2611 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1335 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1809 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
794 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28635P Morohashi
2108 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4677 New Nelson (John Haig)
786 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
849 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1382 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2053 2001 Kanji
2o8.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-8 SKIP code
2-4-6 SKIP code
8012.7 Four corner code
1-18-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7fc1 Unicode hex code

戎

6 strokes
Radical:
spear, halberd 戈
Parts:
戈
warrior, arms, barbarian, Ainu
Kun:
えびす、 つわもの
On:
ジュウ

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 戎葵 【ジュウキ】 hollyhock
  • 戎器 【ジュウキ】 weapons of war, arms
  • 西戎 【セイジュウ】 Xirong, Rong, inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE), barbarians to the west
  • 東夷西戎 【トウイセイジュウ】 barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China)

Kun reading compounds

  • 夷 【えびす】 peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu), provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city), brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan), foreigner, barbarian
  • 恵比寿 【えびす】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 十日戎 【とおかえびす】 Tōka Ebisu, festival held on January 10 in honor of Ebisu, the god of fishing and commerce

Readings

Japanese names:
えび
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
rong2
Korean:
yung

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1798 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
321 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
11539 Morohashi
2024 New Nelson (John Haig)
4n2.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-2 SKIP code
5340.0 Four corner code
1-29-31 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
620e Unicode hex code

貝

7 strokes
Radical:
shell 貝
Parts:
ハ 目 貝
Variants:
蛽
shellfish
Kun:
かい
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1787 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貝 【バイ】 Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica), Japanese ivory shell, spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)
  • 貝貨 【バイカ】 shell money
  • 越虫貝 【エッチュウバイ】 finely-striate buccinum (species of whelk, Buccinum striatissimum)
  • 蝦夷貝 【エゾバイ】 Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)

Kun reading compounds

  • 貝 【かい】 shellfish, seashell, shell
  • 貝殻 【かいがら】 seashell, shell
  • 魚介 【ぎょかい】 marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish
  • パウア貝 【パウアかい】 paua (edible New Zealand abalone; species Haliotis iris, H. australis, H. virginea)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei4
Korean:
pae

Spanish

  • concha

Portuguese

  • Marisco
  • conchas

French

  • coquillage
169 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
49 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
90 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1590 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4486 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
44 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
917 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
498 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
240 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
240 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
719 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1720 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3150 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1614 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2200 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
54 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36656 Morohashi
2543 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5766 New Nelson (John Haig)
54 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
56 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
70 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3961 2001 Kanji
7b0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-2 SKIP code
6080.0 Four corner code
1-19-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c9d Unicode hex code