Jisho

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茉

8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
一 ｜ 亠 ハ 艾 木
jasmine
On:
マツ、 バツ、 マ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茉莉 【マツリ】 Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
  • 茉莉花 【マツリカ】 Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
  • 茉莉 【マツリ】 Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
  • 茉莉花 【マツリカ】 Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)

Readings

Japanese names:
み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mo4
Korean:
mal

Spanish

  • jazmín

Portuguese

French

682A Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2215 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2790 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1434 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1933 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30841X Morohashi
2244 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4994 New Nelson (John Haig)
2348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2436 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-71-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8309 Unicode hex code

莉

10 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
刈 艾 禾
jasmine
On:
リ、 ライ、 レイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茉莉 【マツリ】 Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • jazmín

Portuguese

French

2218 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2843 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1467 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1975 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31034X Morohashi
2284 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5044 New Nelson (John Haig)
2349 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2437 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-7 SKIP code
4492.0 Four corner code
1-72-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8389 Unicode hex code

花

7 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
化 匕 艾
Variants:
芲
flower
Kun:
はな
On:
カ、 ケ
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:
わ
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