Jisho

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菖

11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
艾 日
iris
On:
ショウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 菖蒲 【ショウブ】 sweet flag (Acorus calamus), calamus, Japanese iris (Iris ensata var. ensata)
  • 菖蒲湯 【ショウブユ】 bathwater with iris petals
  • 石菖 【セキショウ】 Japanese sweet flag (Acorus gramineus)
  • 庭石菖 【ニワゼキショウ】 blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium rosulatum)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang1
Korean:
chang

Spanish

  • iris

Portuguese

French

3969 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1444 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2220 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2881 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1487 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2005 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31174X Morohashi
5085 New Nelson (John Haig)
2366 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2452 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k8.22 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
4460.6 Four corner code
1-30-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83d6 Unicode hex code

蒲

13 strokes (also 14)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
丶 十 汁 艾 用
bullrush, flag, cattail
Kun:
がま、 かば、 かま
On:
ホ、 ボ、 フ、 ブ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1887 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蒲公英 【タンポポ】 dandelion (esp. species Taraxacum platycarpum)
  • 蒲黄 【ホオウ】 cattail pollen (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
  • 布団 【フトン】 futon, Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet, round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
  • 蒲桃 【フトモモ】 rose apple (Syzygium jambos), Malabar plum, jambos
  • 座蒲 【ザフ】 round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
  • 匂い菖蒲 【ニオイショウブ】 aromatic cane, orris
  • 黄菖蒲 【キショウブ】 yellow iris

Kun reading compounds

  • 蒲 【がま】 common cattail (Typha latifolia), broadleaf cattail, common bulrush, great reedmace
  • 小蒲 【こがま】 Typha orientalis
  • 蒲 【かば】 common cattail (Typha latifolia), broadleaf cattail, common bulrush, great reedmace, reddish yellow
  • 樺色 【かばいろ】 reddish yellow
  • 蒲 【がま】 common cattail (Typha latifolia), broadleaf cattail, common bulrush, great reedmace
  • 蒲魚 【かまとと】 feigning ignorance, feigning naivety, pretense of innocence, person (esp. a woman) pretending to be innocent, ignorant or naive, faux-naïf
  • カニ蒲 【カニかま】 imitation crab meat, crab sticks

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pu2
Korean:
po

Spanish

  • espadaña
  • anea

Portuguese

French

  • massette (typha latifolia)
1598 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4021 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1993 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2932 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2039 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1855 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31611X Morohashi
2504 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5156 New Nelson (John Haig)
1838 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1981 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k10.8 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-4-10 SKIP code
4412.7 Four corner code
1-19-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
84b2 Unicode hex code

杜

7 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
土 木
woods, grove
Kun:
もり、 ふさ.ぐ、 やまなし
On:
ト、 トウ、 ズ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2062 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 途絶 【トゼツ】 stoppage, interruption, cessation, suspension
  • 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 杜氏 【トウジ】 chief brewer at a sake brewery
  • 杜撰 【ズサン】 careless, sloppy, faulty, using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing), piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
  • 杜撰脱漏 【ズサンダツロウ】 careless (slipshod) and with many omissions

Kun reading compounds

  • 森 【もり】 forest, shrine grove
  • 杜の都 【もりのみやこ】 Capital of Trees (nickname for Sendai City)
  • 鎮守の杜 【ちんじゅのもり】 grove of the village shrine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du4
Korean:
du

Spanish

  • bosque
  • arboleda
  • bloquear
  • cerrar

Portuguese

French

2188 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
423 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1030 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
559 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
739 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14477 Morohashi
835 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2560 New Nelson (John Haig)
2500 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2562 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4491.0 Four corner code
1-37-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
675c Unicode hex code

若

8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
一 ノ 口 艾
young, if, perhaps, possibly, low number, immature
Kun:
わか.い、 わか-、 も.しくわ、 も.し、 も.しくは、 ごと.し
On:
ジャク、 ニャク、 ニャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
458 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 若年 【ジャクネン】 youth
  • 若僧 【ニャクソウ】 young monk, boy monk
  • 老若 【ロウニャク】 young and old, all ages
  • 瞠若 【ドウジャク】 (staring in) astonishment, amazement
  • 若僧 【ニャクソウ】 young monk, boy monk
  • 若道 【ニャクドウ】 homosexuality, pederasty
  • 老若 【ロウニャク】 young and old, all ages
  • 若僧 【ニャクソウ】 young monk, boy monk
  • 若道 【ニャクドウ】 homosexuality, pederasty
  • 般若 【ハンニャ】 prajna (wisdom required to attain enlightenment), hannya, mask of a grinning, horned demoness (represents a woman's rage and jealousy), dreadful face (esp. of a woman driven mad by jealousy), terrifying facial expression
  • 麦般若 【ムギハンニャ】 beer

Kun reading compounds

  • 若い 【わかい】 young, youthful, immature, green, low (number), small
  • 若い頃 【わかいころ】 one's youth, early life, one's early days, one's early years
  • 若し 【もし】 if, in case, supposing
  • 若しかしたら 【もしかしたら】 perhaps, maybe, perchance, by some chance, by any chance
  • 若しくは 【もしくは】 or, otherwise
  • 如し 【ごとし】 like, as if, the same as

Readings

Japanese names:
わく、 わこ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ruo4, re3
Korean:
yag, ya

Spanish

  • joven
  • algunos
  • posiblemente
  • de otra forma

Portuguese

  • jovem
  • se
  • talvez
  • possivelmente
  • número baixo
  • imaturo

French

  • jeune
  • si
  • peut-être
  • ou bien
  • petit nombre
  • inexpérimenté
  • immature
896 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
886 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
372 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3926 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
982 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
863 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
692 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.15 Japanese for Busy People
544 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
553 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
125 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
648 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2785 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1430 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1928 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
228 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30796P Morohashi
2241 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5007 New Nelson (John Haig)
223 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
237 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
391 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
864 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1977 2001 Kanji
3k5.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4460.4 Four corner code
1-28-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82e5 Unicode hex code