Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
diamond (shape), water chestnut, rhombus
Kun:
ひし
On:
リョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 菱亜鉛鉱 【リョウアエンコウ】 smithsonite, zinc spar, szaskaite, calamine, dry-bone ore
  • 菱花 【リョウカ】 water chestnut flower, water caltrop flower

Kun reading compounds

  • 菱 【ひし】 water caltrop (esp. Trapa japonica), water chestnut, caltrop (weapon)
  • 菱垣廻船 【ひがきかいせん】 large Japanese junk

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ling2
Korean:
reung

Spanish

  • castaño de agua
  • rombo
  • diamante

Portuguese

French

  • losange
  • mâcre nageante (trapa japonica)
  • rhombe
980 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3977 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1449 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2879 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2003 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1531 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31219X Morohashi
5092 New Nelson (John Haig)
1517 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1635 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1967 2001 Kanji
3k8.20 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2-4-8 SKIP code
4440.7 Four corner code
1-41-09 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83f1 Unicode hex code