Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蕃茄 【バンカ】 tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Readings

Japanese names:
な、 か、 なす
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qie2, jia1
Korean:
ga

Spanish

  • berenjena

Portuguese

French

3914 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2213 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2787 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1431 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1930 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30835X Morohashi
4995 New Nelson (John Haig)
2372 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2456 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.19 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4446.0 Four corner code
1-18-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8304 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
-こ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
dark blue, navy
On:
コン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1825 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 紺 【コン】 navy blue, deep blue
  • 紺屋 【コウヤ】 dyer
  • 紫紺 【シコン】 dark purple, bluish purple
  • 茄子紺 【ナスコン】 dusky purple, dark purple, eggplant color

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gan4
Korean:
gam

Spanish

  • azul oscuro
  • azul marino

Portuguese

  • azul escuro
  • azul-marinho

French

  • bleu marine
1279 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1738 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3517 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1653 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1629 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1954 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1493 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1592 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1562 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1524 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1688 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
899 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1219 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1774 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27362 Morohashi
1332 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4466 New Nelson (John Haig)
1758 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1895 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1472 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2778 2001 Kanji
6a5.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
2497.0 Four corner code
1-26-16 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d3a Unicode hex code