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胡

9 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
十 口 月
barbarian, foreign
Kun:
なんぞ
On:
ウ、 コ、 ゴ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1995 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 胡散 【ウサン】 suspicious
  • 胡散臭い 【ウサンクサイ】 suspicious-looking, shady, questionable, dubious, fishy
  • 胡 【コ】 barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
  • 胡椒 【コショウ】 pepper
  • 柴胡 【サイコ】 Bupleurum root, Radix Bupleuri
  • 京胡 【キョウコ】 jinghu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
  • 誤魔化す 【ゴマカス】 to deceive, to cheat, to swindle, to falsify, to misrepresent, to lie about, to tamper with, to doctor, to cook, to evade (a question, taxes, etc.), to dodge, to gloss over (a mistake, fault, etc.), to smooth over, to get one's way out of (a difficult situation), to explain away, to embezzle, to pocket
  • 胡麻 【ゴマ】 sesame seeds, sesame (Sesamum indicum)

Readings

Japanese names:
えびす、 くる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu2
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • bárbaro
  • extranjero

Portuguese

French

3753 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
879 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2206 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1467 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
623 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1057 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29400 Morohashi
4792 New Nelson (John Haig)
2470 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2537 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b5.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-4 SKIP code
4762.0 Four corner code
1-24-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80e1 Unicode hex code

楊

13 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
一 日 木 勿
willow
Kun:
やなぎ
On:
ヨウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1815 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 柳 【ヤナギ】 willow (any tree of genus Salix), weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
  • 楊弓 【ヨウキュウ】 small toy bow that can be shot while sitting, popular in the Edo period
  • 垂楊 【スイヨウ】 weeping willow
  • 箱柳 【ハコヤナギ】 Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)

Kun reading compounds

  • 柳 【やなぎ】 willow (any tree of genus Salix), weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
  • 箱柳 【はこやなぎ】 Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)
  • 泥の木 【どろのき】 Japanese poplar (Populus maximowiczii)

Readings

Japanese names:
やな
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yang2
Korean:
yang

Spanish

  • sauce

Portuguese

French

2321 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1898 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2122 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1286 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
699 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
933 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15112 Morohashi
2784 New Nelson (John Haig)
2473 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2539 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a9.17 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
4692.7 Four corner code
1-45-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
694a Unicode hex code

樹

16 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
并 口 土 寸 木 豆
timber, trees, wood, establish, set up
Kun:
き
On:
ジュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
988 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 樹木 【ジュモク】 tree, trees and shrubs
  • 樹脂 【ジュシ】 resin, rosin
  • 植樹 【ショクジュ】 tree-planting
  • 広葉樹 【コウヨウジュ】 broadleaf tree, broad-leaved tree

Kun reading compounds

  • 木 【き】 tree, shrub, bush, wood, timber, wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
  • 木々 【きぎ】 (many) trees, every tree, all kinds of trees
  • 一樹 【いちじゅ】 one tree, a tree
  • 楷の木 【かいのき】 Chinese pistache (Pistacia chinensis)

Readings

Japanese names:
いつき、 うえ、 こ、 しげ、 じ、 たちき、 たつ、 たつる、 な
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu4
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • árbol
  • vegetación
  • establecer

Portuguese

  • Madeira-de-lei
  • madeira

French

  • grume
  • bois
897 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
888 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1034 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2377 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1053 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1446 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2483 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1144 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1197 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1853 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1117 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1363 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
735 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
987 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1458 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15496 Morohashi
1075 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2878 New Nelson (John Haig)
1446 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1554 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
993 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1848 2001 Kanji
4a12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-12 SKIP code
4490.0 Four corner code
1-28-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6a39 Unicode hex code