Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
stalk, stem
Kun:
くき
On:
ケイキョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2013 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茎頂 【ケイチョウ】 tip of a stem (of a plant)
  • 茎葉 【ケイヨウ】 stems and leaves
  • 塊茎 【カイケイ】 tuber
  • 包茎 【ホウケイ】 phimosis
  • 包茎 【ホウケイ】 phimosis
  • 陰茎 【インケイ】 penis

Kun reading compounds

  • 茎 【くき】 stalk, stem
  • 茎茶 【くきちゃ】 twig tea, stem tea, kukicha, tea made from twigs pruned from the tea plant during its dormant season
  • 水茎 【みずぐき】 writing brush, writing, handwriting
  • 一茎 【ひとくき】 one stem

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jing1
Korean:
gyeong

Spanish

  • tallo
  • caña
  • raíz

Portuguese

  • caule
  • talo

French

  • tige
  • queue
1194 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1995 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3912 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1291 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1700 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
684 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1474 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1571 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1836 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
647 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2788 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1432 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1931 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
722 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30861PX Morohashi
2242 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4991 New Nelson (John Haig)
715 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
772 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1214 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1972 2001 Kanji
3k5.23 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4410.4 Four corner code
1-23-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
830e Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
pickling, soak, moisten, steep
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1818 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 浸漬 【シンシ】 dipping, soaking, immersing

Kun reading compounds

  • 漬ける 【つける】 to soak (in), to steep, to dip, to dunk, to pickle, to preserve (in salt, vinegar, etc.)
  • 浸かる 【つかる】 to be submerged, to be soaked, to be pickled, to be well seasoned, to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi4
Korean:
ji

Spanish

  • remojar
  • empapar
  • encurtir

Portuguese

  • Por em conserva
  • ensopar
  • umedecer
  • empapar

French

  • saumure
  • tremper
  • humecter
  • imbiber
1608 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1841 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2676 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1498 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1793 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1929 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1506 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1243 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
861 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
496 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
636 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1559 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18167 Morohashi
702 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3301 New Nelson (John Haig)
1545 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1665 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1710 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
361 2001 Kanji
3a11.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
3518.6 Four corner code
1-36-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f2c Unicode hex code