Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かやちがや
On:
ボウミョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1895 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茅屋 【ボウオク】 thatched cottage, hovel, my humble cottage
  • 茅茨 【ボウシ】 thatched roof, cogon grass and thorny shrubs (materials for thatching roofs)

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 茅場 【かやば】 hayfield, field of miscanthus
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 茅 【ちがや】 cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Readings

Japanese names:
ち、 じ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mao2
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • gramíneas (junco
  • heno
  • etc.)

Portuguese

French

3924 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
690 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2214 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2779 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1425 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1922 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30836X Morohashi
5005 New Nelson (John Haig)
2385 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2468 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4422.2 Four corner code
1-19-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8305 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 弓箭 【キュウセン】 bow and arrow, arms, weapons, archer, warrior, fighting with bows and arrows, war, battle
  • 火矢 【ヒヤ】 fire arrow, incendiary arrow, rocket

Kun reading compounds

  • 矢 【や】 arrow, wedge, chock
  • 矢竹 【やだけ】 bamboo arrow shaft, arrow bamboo (Pseudosasa japonica)
  • 弓矢 【ゆみや】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 大矢 【おおや】 long arrow, person who can fire a long arrow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian4
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3419 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2397 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
26193X Morohashi
4325 New Nelson (John Haig)
2636 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2680 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-9 SKIP code
8822.1 Four corner code
1-32-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7bad Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
hiding enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
ward, district
On:
オウコウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
137 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 区 【ク】 ward, borough, city (in Tokyo), district (e.g. electoral), section, zone (e.g. postal)
  • 区域 【クイキ】 area, zone, district, quarter, section, limits, boundary
  • 学区 【ガック】 school district, school area
  • 鉱区 【コウク】 mining area, mine lot

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qu1, ou1
Korean:
gu, u

Spanish

  • barrio
  • distrito
  • sección

Portuguese

  • waº
  • distrito

French

  • circonscription
  • arrondissement
591 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
282 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
465 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
67 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
757 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
168 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
131 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
183 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
183 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
548 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
233 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3681 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1879 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2559 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1712 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2674 Morohashi
2963 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
585 New Nelson (John Haig)
1696 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1831 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
243 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3475 2001 Kanji
2t2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
7171.4 Four corner code
1-22-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
533a Unicode hex code