Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
old 老 (耂)
Parts:
old man, old age, grow old
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
803 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 老 【ロウ】 old age, age, old people, the old, the aged, senior, elder, I, me, my humble self
  • 老化 【ロウカ】 ageing, aging, senile deterioration
  • 養老 【ヨウロウ】 making provision for the elderly, making provision for one's old age, spending one's old age in comfort, Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)
  • 敬老 【ケイロウ】 respect for the aged

Kun reading compounds

  • 老いる 【おいる】 to age, to grow old
  • 老ける 【ふける】 to age, to grow old (esp. in appearance), to show marks of age

Readings

Japanese names:
えび、 おい、 び
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lao3
Korean:
ro

Spanish

  • envejecer
  • viejo
  • experimentado
  • hacerse viejo

Portuguese

  • velho
  • velhice
  • envelhecer

French

  • vieillard
  • âgé
  • vieillir
541 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
638 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
609 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
788 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3683 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
637 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
837 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
334 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
543 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
552 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
737 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1576 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3963 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2040 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2754 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1259 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28842 Morohashi
3197 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4696 New Nelson (John Haig)
1251 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1340 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
472 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1456 2001 Kanji
2k4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-2 SKIP code
4471.1 Four corner code
1-47-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8001 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:
Variants:
lass, girl, Miss, daughter
Kun:
むすめ
On:
ジョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2059 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 嬢 【ジョウ】 unmarried woman, Miss, -ess, -ette
  • 娘核 【ジョウカク】 daughter nucleus
  • 令嬢 【レイジョウ】 (your) daughter, young woman, daughter of a good family
  • 愛嬢 【アイジョウ】 one's beloved daughter

Kun reading compounds

  • 娘子 【じょうし】 girl, young (unmarried) woman, (grown) woman, lady, (someone else's) wife
  • 娘細胞 【じょうさいぼう】 daughter cell

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
niang2
Korean:
yang

Spanish

  • muchacha
  • señorita
  • chica

Portuguese

  • Jovem
  • moça
  • senhorita
  • filha

French

  • mademoiselle
  • jeune fille
  • fille
1422 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1609 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1257 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1368 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1202 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1836 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1986 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1649 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
454 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
936 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
525 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
685 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1544 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6807P Morohashi
758 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1270 New Nelson (John Haig)
1530 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1650 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1827 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1765 2001 Kanji
3e13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-13 SKIP code
4043.2 Four corner code
1-30-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b22 Unicode hex code