Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
flower
Kun:
はな
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
578 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 花形 【ハナガタ】 floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star (actor, player, etc.)
  • 花園 【ハナゾノ】 flower garden
  • 献花 【ケンカ】 flower offering, floral tribute, laying flowers
  • 紅花 【ベニバナ】 safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), dyer's safflower
  • 花かご 【ハナカゴ】 flower basket, flower basket (or plate) used for flower-scattering rituals
  • 花瓶 【ケビョウ】 vase used to hold flower offerings (often made of gilded copper)
  • 天花 【テンゲ】 flowers that bloom in the heavens, paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image

Kun reading compounds

  • 花 【はな】 flower, blossom, bloom, petal, cherry blossom, beauty, blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms), ikebana, hanafuda, (the) best, glorious, lovely
  • 花形 【はながた】 floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star (actor, player, etc.)
  • 菜の花 【なのはな】 rape blossoms, rapeseed flowers
  • 紅花 【べにばな】 safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), dyer's safflower

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua1
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • flor

Portuguese

  • flor

French

  • fleur
43 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
70 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
9 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
551 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3909 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
328 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
81 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
481 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
255 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
255 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
314 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
641 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2740 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1405 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1894 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1018 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30734P Morohashi
2211 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4980 New Nelson (John Haig)
1009 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1084 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
69 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1956 2001 Kanji
3k4.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
4421.4 Four corner code
1-18-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82b1 Unicode hex code

13 strokes (also 12)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
lotus
Kun:
はすはちす
On:
レン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1839 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 蓮華 【レンゲ】 lotus flower, Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus), china spoon, lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone
  • 蓮角 【レンカク】 jacana (esp. the pheasant-tailed jacana, Hydrophasianus chirurgus), lily-trotter
  • 睡蓮 【スイレン】 water lily (any plant of genus Nymphaea), pygmy waterlily (Nymphaea tetragona)
  • 黄連 【オウレン】 goldthread (Coptis japonica)

Kun reading compounds

  • 蓮 【はす】 sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), Indian lotus, lotus, rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
  • 蓮池 【はすいけ】 lotus pond
  • 蓮 【はす】 sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), Indian lotus, lotus, rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
  • 蓮の蔤 【はちすのはい】 lotus root
  • 木蓮 【きはちす】 rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lian2
Korean:
ryeon

Spanish

  • loto

Portuguese

French

4731 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2197 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2227 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2940 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1511 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2047 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31722 Morohashi
5105 New Nelson (John Haig)
2360 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2446 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k10.31 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
4430.4 Four corner code
1-47-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
84ee Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
谿
mountain stream, valley
Kun:
たにたにがわ
On:
ケイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2063 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 渓谷 【ケイコク】 valley (with a river running through it), gorge, ravine, canyon
  • 渓流 【ケイリュウ】 mountain stream, mountain torrent
  • 雪渓 【セッケイ】 snowy valley
  • 猊鼻渓 【ゲイビケイ】 Geibi Gorge (Ichinoseki, Iwate)

Kun reading compounds

  • 谷 【たに】 valley

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1
Korean:
gye

Spanish

  • arroyo de montaña
  • valle
  • garganta

Portuguese

  • corrente de montanha
  • vale

French

  • torrent
  • gorge
  • vallée étroite
1199 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1822 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2581 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1846 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1484 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1330A Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1884 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2053 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1843 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1206 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
628 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
380 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
474 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
848 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
516 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3196 New Nelson (John Haig)
840 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
903 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1454 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
363 2001 Kanji
3a8.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3213.4 Four corner code
1-23-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e13 Unicode hex code