Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
Variants:
brain, memory
Kun:
のうずる
On:
ノウドウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
459 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 脳 【ノウ】 brain, brains, mind
  • 脳死 【ノウシ】 brain death
  • 大脳 【ダイノウ】 cerebrum
  • 洗脳 【センノウ】 brainwashing

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nao3
Korean:
noe

Spanish

  • cerebro
  • sesos
  • intelecto

Portuguese

  • cérebro
  • memória

French

  • cerveau
  • mémoire
964 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
954 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
621 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3774 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
927 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
849 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1278 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1352 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1109 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1036 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1227 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
665 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
888 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1953 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29567P Morohashi
975 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4821 New Nelson (John Haig)
1934 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2084 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
930 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3975 2001 Kanji
4b7.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-7 SKIP code
7927.2 Four corner code
7227.2 Four corner code
1-39-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8133 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
strangle, constrict, wring
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1288 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絞 【コウ】 death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)
  • 絞殺 【コウサツ】 strangulation, strangling

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize
  • 絞める 【しめる】 to strangle, to constrict
  • 絞まる 【しまる】 to be strangled, to be constricted

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao3, jia3
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • constreñir
  • contraer
  • torcer
  • estrujar

Portuguese

  • estrangular
  • apertar
  • torcer

French

  • étrangler
  • serrer
  • tordre
1261 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1825 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3535 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1394 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1630 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1452 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1565 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1533 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1707 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
913 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1236 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1360 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27421 Morohashi
1349 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4485 New Nelson (John Haig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1448 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1576 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2766 2001 Kanji
6a6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
2094.8 Four corner code
1-25-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d5e Unicode hex code