Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
colour, prettiness
Parts:
Variants:
glossy, luster, glaze, polish, charm, colorful, captivating
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2207 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 艶 【エン】 charming, fascinating, voluptuous
  • 演歌 【エンカ】 enka, traditional-style Japanese popular ballad, troubadour
  • 妖艶 【ヨウエン】 fascinating, voluptuous, bewitching, captivating
  • 凄艶 【セイエン】 weirdly beautiful

Kun reading compounds

  • 艶 【つや】 gloss, luster, lustre, shine, sheen, polish, mellowness (of a voice), youthfulness (e.g. of skin), interest, appeal, charm, color, colour, feeling, romance, love, sexiness
  • 艶々 【つやつや】 glossy, bright, slick
  • 艶々 【つやつや】 glossy, bright, slick
  • 艶かしい 【なまめかしい】 charming, captivating, bewitching, seductive, coquettish
  • 艶やか 【あでやか】 glamorous, charming, fascinatingly elegant, lovely, gorgeous, beguiling, bewitching
  • 艶めく 【つやめく】 (for an object) to be shiny, to be glossy, (for a woman) to be alluring, to look sexy
  • 艶めく 【なまめく】 to brim over with feminine charm, to look captivating (of a woman), to be sexy, to be seductive, to be enticing, to look young and fresh, to be elegant, to look refined, to have a calm and composed appearance

Readings

Japanese names:
もろ、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan4
Korean:
yeom

Spanish

  • encantador
  • cautivador
  • lustroso
  • vidriado
  • pulido

Portuguese

French

  • luisant
  • brillant
  • lustré
  • charmant
  • poli
  • verni
  • coloré
  • captivant
3890 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1914 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2833 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2209 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
990 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2403 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1222 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1683 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1771 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30632 Morohashi
1908 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4957 New Nelson (John Haig)
1755 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1892 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d16.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-13-6 SKIP code
5711.7 Four corner code
1-17-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8276 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
Variants:
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kun:
ことつか.うつか.える
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 事 【ジ】 individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
  • 事業 【ジギョウ】 business, enterprise, venture, (commercial) activity, (business) operation, industry, (social) project, undertaking, enterprise, work, activity, program, service
  • 商事 【ショウジ】 commercial affairs
  • 有事 【ユウジ】 emergency

Kun reading compounds

  • 事 【こと】 thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
  • 事柄 【ことがら】 matter, thing, affair, circumstance
  • 神事 【しんじ】 Shinto ritual
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • 仕える 【つかえる】 to serve, to work for, to attend

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cosa
  • hecho
  • asunto
  • acción

Portuguese

  • matéria
  • coisa
  • fato
  • negócios
  • razão
  • possivelmente

French

  • fait
  • chose
  • matière
  • affaire
  • raison
  • peut-être
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
309 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
293 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
272 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
73 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
108 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
768 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
80 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
80 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
30 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4384 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
241 Morohashi
3567 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 New Nelson (John Haig)
1156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1240 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
300 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1547 2001 Kanji
0a8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
5000.7 Four corner code
1-27-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e8b Unicode hex code