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

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 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

12 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
axis, pivot, stem, stalk, counter for book scrolls
On:
ジク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1261 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 軸 【ジク】 axis, shaft, axle, center, centre, focal point, key point, stalk, stem, hanging scroll
  • 軸足 【ジクアシ】 pivot foot, emphasis, priority, focus
  • 基軸 【キジク】 basis, foundation, core, criterion, standard
  • 中軸 【チュウジク】 axis, pivot, central figure, key man

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou2, zhou4, zhu2
Korean:
chug

Spanish

  • eje
  • pivote
  • péndulo
  • mango

Portuguese

  • eixo
  • pivô
  • talo
  • caule
  • sufixo para contagem de pergaminhos

French

  • axe
  • pivot
  • tige
  • compteur de livres en rouleaux
1330 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1719 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4619 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1258 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1798 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
988 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1023 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1589 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1776 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1908 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1014 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1371 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1121 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38269 Morohashi
1514 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5952 New Nelson (John Haig)
1112 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1193 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1591 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1576 2001 Kanji
7c5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-5 SKIP code
5506.0 Four corner code
1-28-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ef8 Unicode hex code