Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
potato
Kun:
いも
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2418 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 海芋 【カイウ】 calla (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
  • 阿蘭陀海芋 【オランダカイウ】 calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica)

Kun reading compounds

  • 芋 【いも】 tuber, taro, potato, yam, yokel, bumpkin, dud, worthless thing
  • 芋洗い 【いもあらい】 washing potatoes (in a bucket), being very crowded, being packed with people
  • 焼き芋 【やきいも】 roasted sweet potato, baked sweet potato
  • 唐芋 【とういも】 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu4
Korean:
u, hu

Spanish

  • patata
  • batata

Portuguese

  • batata

French

  • pomme de terre
1011 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2001 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3896 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1682 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1694 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
288 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1909 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2081 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1834 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
639 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2706 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1381 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1868 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1670 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30670P Morohashi
2181 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4964 New Nelson (John Haig)
1655 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1784 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1088 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1947 2001 Kanji
3k3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
4440.1 Four corner code
1-16-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
828b Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
Variants:
rice gruel
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2280 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 粥 【カユ】 thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee, breakfast (in Zen temples)
  • 粥状 【ジュクジョウ】 arthero-, atheromatous, gruel-like, porridge-like
  • 粥状硬化 【ジュクジョウコウカ】 atherosclerosis, atherosclerotic
  • 糜粥 【ビジュク】 chyme

Kun reading compounds

  • 粥 【かゆ】 thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee, breakfast (in Zen temples)
  • 粥占 【かゆうら】 rice porridge divination, harvest divination carried out during Koshōgatsu
  • 白粥 【しらがゆ】 unflavored rice porridge, rice porridge made of only white rice and water
  • 粥 【かゆ】 thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee, breakfast (in Zen temples)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou1, yu4
Korean:
jug, yug, gug

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1574 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
698 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
525 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26938 Morohashi
4402 New Nelson (John Haig)
2243 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2349 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3h9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
1722.7 Four corner code
1-20-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7ca5 Unicode hex code