Jisho

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肇

14 strokes
Radical:
brush 聿 (⺻)
Parts:
一 尸 戸 聿 乞 攵
Variants:
肈
beginning
Kun:
はじ.める、 はじめ
On:
チョウ、 ジョウ、 トウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1943 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肇国 【チョウコク】 founding of a state
  • 肇歳 【チョウサイ】 beginning of the year

Readings

Japanese names:
とし、 ただし、 はつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhao4
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • comienzo
  • apertura

Portuguese

French

3723 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1968 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2222 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2204 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3474 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1791 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2439 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29228X Morohashi
2799 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4751 New Nelson (John Haig)
2893 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2902 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4m10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-6 SKIP code
3850.7 Four corner code
1-40-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8087 Unicode hex code

国

8 strokes
Radical:
enclosure 囗
Parts:
丶 囗 王
Variants:
國 圀
country
Kun:
くに
On:
コク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 国益 【コクエキ】 national interest
  • 国営 【コクエイ】 government management, state management
  • 最恵国 【サイケイコク】 most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN
  • 異国 【イコク】 foreign country

Kun reading compounds

  • 国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth
  • 国人 【こくじん】 indigenous person, inhabitant of a country, local, native, local lords and samurai, daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
  • お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
  • 現国 【うつしくに】 world of mankind, this world

Readings

Japanese names:
くな、 こ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2
Korean:
gug

Spanish

  • país

Portuguese

  • País
  • terra
  • nação

French

  • pays
79 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
136 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
123 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
8 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1037 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
111 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
36 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
745 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
40 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
40 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
151 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
344 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3831 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2659 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
588 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4752 Morohashi
3087 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
950 New Nelson (John Haig)
581 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
624 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
158 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3172 2001 Kanji
3s5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
6010.3 Four corner code
1-25-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56fd Unicode hex code