Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
self
Parts:
Variants:
stinking, ill-smelling, suspicious looking, odor, savor, fragrance, be fragrant, stink, glow, be bright
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1760 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 臭 【シュウ】 -smell, stinking of, smacking of, hinting of
  • 臭覚 【シュウカク】 the sense of smell
  • 体臭 【タイシュウ】 body odor, body odour, personal odor, personal odour, characteristic (of someone)
  • 異臭 【イシュウ】 offensive smell, off-flavor, off-flavour

Kun reading compounds

  • 臭い 【くさい】 stinking, smelly, suspicious, fishy, clumsy, unskilled, smelling of, looking like, appearing like, smacking of, -ish
  • 臭い玉 【においだま】 tonsil stone, tonsillolith, scent ball
  • 匂う 【におう】 to be fragrant, to smell (good), to stink, to smell (bad), to glow, to be bright, to smack of, to show hints of
  • 匂い 【におい】 odour, odor, scent, smell, stench, aura, whiff, smacks of ..., sense, flavour, flavor
  • 匂いがする 【においがする】 to smell, to smell of, to have a smell

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chou4, xiu4
Korean:
chwi

Spanish

  • peste
  • hedor
  • mal olor
  • apestar
  • oler mal

Portuguese

  • fedendo
  • cheiro de doença
  • parecer suspeito
  • odor
  • cheiro
  • fragrância
  • cheirar
  • feder
  • brilhar
  • brilhante

French

  • sentir mauvais
  • malodorant
  • odeur
  • saveur
  • parfum
  • puer
  • aspect louche
  • brillant
1356 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1409 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3842 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1308 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1684 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1244 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1310 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1285 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1588 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3261 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1682 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2289 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
123 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30103P Morohashi
2633 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4901 New Nelson (John Haig)
122 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
128 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1290 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
863 2001 Kanji
5c4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
2643.0 Four corner code
1-29-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81ed Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
spoon
Parts:
change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
89 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 化 【カ】 change to ..., becoming ..., making into ..., -ization, -ification
  • 化学 【カガク】 chemistry
  • 機械化 【キカイカ】 mechanization, mechanisation
  • 民営化 【ミンエイカ】 privatization, privatisation
  • 化粧 【ケショウ】 make-up, makeup, cosmetics, decoration, dressing, veneer
  • 化粧水 【ケショウスイ】 skin lotion, face lotion
  • 応化 【オウゲ】 assumption of a suitable form (by a buddha or bodhisattva)
  • 教化 【キョウケ】 guidance, teaching people and leading them to Buddhism

Kun reading compounds

  • 化ける 【ばける】 to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.), to assume the shape of, to turn oneself into, to transform oneself into, to disguise oneself as, to change radically, to metamorphose, to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
  • 化かす 【ばかす】 to bewitch, to confuse, to enchant, to delude
  • 老ける 【ふける】 to age, to grow old (esp. in appearance), to show marks of age

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua4
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • cambiar
  • transformarse
  • modificarse
  • disfrazarse

Portuguese

  • mudança
  • tomar a forma de
  • influência
  • encantar
  • iludir
  • seduzir
  • -isação

French

  • transformation
  • prendre la forme de
  • maquillage
  • influence
  • fantôme
  • enchanter
  • tromper
  • chimie
  • -isation
163 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
258 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
238 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
100 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
350 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
76 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
378 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
56 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.19 Japanese for Busy People
254 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
254 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
414 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
55 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
22 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
12 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1017 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2572X Morohashi
21 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
580 New Nelson (John Haig)
1008 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1083 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
104 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
242 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2156 2001 Kanji
2a2.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-2 SKIP code
2121.0 Four corner code
2421.0 Four corner code
1-18-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5316 Unicode hex code