Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
mustard, rape, dust, trash, rubbish
Kun:
からしごみあくた
On:
カイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1929 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 芥子泥 【カイシデイ】 mustard plaster
  • 芥藍 【カイラン】 kai-lan, gai-lan, Chinese broccoli
  • 厨芥 【チュウカイ】 kitchen waste
  • 塵芥 【ジンカイ】 rubbish, trash, garbage, refuse, worthless thing
  • 芥子 【ケシ】 opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
  • 芥子粒 【ケシツブ】 poppy seed, something extremely tiny

Kun reading compounds

  • 辛子 【からし】 mustard
  • からし色 【からしいろ】 mustard (color)
  • 塵 【ごみ】 rubbish, trash, garbage, refuse, litter
  • ゴミ箱 【ごみばこ】 trash can, garbage can, rubbish bin, dustbin
  • 芥 【あくた】 rubbish, trash, garbage, refuse, dirt
  • 芥川賞 【あくたがわしょう】 Akutagawa Prize (literary award)
  • 塵芥 【じんかい】 rubbish, trash, garbage, refuse, worthless thing

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jie4
Korean:
gae

Spanish

  • desperdicio
  • basura
  • mostaza

Portuguese

French

3906 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
475 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2741 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1895 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30715X Morohashi
4977 New Nelson (John Haig)
2376 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2459 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
2-4-4 SKIP code
4422.8 Four corner code
1-19-09 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82a5 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
insect, bug, temper
Kun:
むし
On:
チュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1351 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 虫垂炎 【チュウスイエン】 appendicitis
  • 虫えい 【チュウエイ】 gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
  • 幼虫 【ヨウチュウ】 larva, grub, maggot
  • 寄生虫 【キセイチュウ】 parasite
  • 虫部 【キブ】 insect radical, worm radical
  • 蟻巻 【アリマキ】 aphid, plant louse, plant lice

Kun reading compounds

  • 虫 【むし】 insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm, roundworm, thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious, nervousness, fretfulness, person devoted to one thing, single-minded person, valve core, mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
  • 虫歯 【むしば】 tooth decay, cavity, decayed tooth, dental caries
  • 苦虫 【にがむし】 bitter-tasting bug
  • 馬追虫 【うまおいむし】 Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid), Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chong2, hui3
Korean:
hwe, chung

Spanish

  • insecto
  • bicho

Portuguese

  • inseto
  • bichinho
  • temperamento

French

  • insecte
  • vermine
  • ver
  • reptile
  • colère
114 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
74 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
56 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1073 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4115 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
133 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
875 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
324 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
873 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
893 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
466 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1604 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4343 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2199 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2959 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
523 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32804 Morohashi
3530 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5275 New Nelson (John Haig)
517 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
556 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
60 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1671 2001 Kanji
6d0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-3 SKIP code
2-4-2 SKIP code
5013.6 Four corner code
1-35-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
866b Unicode hex code