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) |
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
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
- Korean:
- reung
Spanish
- castaño de agua
- rombo
- diamante
Portuguese
French
- losange
- mâcre nageante (trapa japonica)
- rhombe
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 |
suffering, trial, worry, hardship, feel bitter, scowl
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
623 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 苦 【ク】 pain, anguish, suffering, distress, anxiety, worry, trouble, difficulty, hardship, duhkha (suffering)
- 苦境 【クキョウ】 difficult situation, adverse circumstances, predicament, trouble, dilemma, distress
- 生活苦 【セイカツク】 hardships of life (esp. due to lack of money), life's struggles
- 病苦 【ビョウク】 pain of sickness
Kun reading compounds
- 苦しい 【くるしい】 painful, difficult, tough, hard, distressing, (psychologically) difficult, stressful, awkward (e.g. position), straitened (circumstances), tight (financial situation), needy, struggling, strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.), lame (e.g. excuse), forced (e.g. smile), far-fetched, hard to do, unpleasant
- 苦しい言い訳 【くるしいいいわけ】 lame excuse, poor excuse
- 苦しむ 【くるしむ】 to suffer, to groan, to be worried
- 苦しめる 【くるしめる】 to torment, to pain, to inflict (physical) pain, to hurt, to harass, to cause (emotional) pain, to afflict, to distress, to bother, to trouble, to stump, to baffle
- 苦い 【にがい】 bitter
- 苦い薬 【にがいくすり】 bitter medicine
- 苦る 【にがる】 to feel bitter, to scowl
Readings
- Korean:
- go
Spanish
- sufrimiento
- pena
- doloroso
- penoso
- trabajoso
- amargo
Portuguese
- sofrimento
- experiência
- preocupar
- dificuldade
- sentir- se amargo
- tristeza
French
- souffrir
- peine
- affliction
- souci
- amer
- renfrogné
197 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
283 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
264 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
597 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3928 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
264 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
864 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
687 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
545 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
554 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
342 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
646 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2789 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1433 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1932 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
230 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
30797P | Morohashi |
2243 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
5009 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
225 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
239 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
344 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
295 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1977 | 2001 Kanji |
3k5.24 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-3-5 | SKIP code |
4460.4 | Four corner code |
1-22-76 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
82e6 | Unicode hex code |
土
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
307 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 土 【ド】 Saturday, earth, dirt, soil, land, lands, ground, earth (third of the five elements)
- 土地 【トチ】 plot of land, lot, soil, locality, region, place
- 浄土 【ジョウド】 pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha), (Buddhist) paradise, Pure Land Buddhism
- 郷土 【キョウド】 native place, birth-place, one's old home, province, region, locality
- 土 【ト】 Turkey
- 時計 【トケイ】 clock, watch, timepiece
- 下土 【カド】 lower world, this world, the earth
- 率土 【ソット】 ends of the earth, outer reaches, borderland
Kun reading compounds
- 土 【つち】 earth, soil, dirt, clay, mud, the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens), the ground, the land, low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud), (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
- 土方 【どかた】 construction worker, laborer (labourer), navvy
- 盛り土 【もりど】 embankment (for road, railway, etc.), raising the ground level, fill
- 赤土 【あかつち】 red clay, red earth, laterite, dark-red paint
Readings
- Japanese names:
- つく、 は、 ひじ
- Korean:
- to, du
Spanish
- suelo
- tierra
- Turquía
Portuguese
- solo
- terra
- chão
- Turquia
French
- sol
- terre
- terrain
- Turquie
17 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
19 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
60 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
316 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
1050 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
19 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
37 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
42 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1.A | Japanese for Busy People |
24 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
24 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
22 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
347 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4211 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2127 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2875 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
152 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
4867 | Morohashi |
3403 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
966 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
150 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
161 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
360 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
22 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1472 | 2001 Kanji |
3b0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-3-2 | SKIP code |
4010.0 | Four corner code |
1-37-58 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
571f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
342 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 石 【セキ】 counter for jewels in a watch, counter for transistors, diodes, etc. in an electronic product
- 石材 【セキザイ】 (building) stone
- 一石 【イッセキ】 one game (of go)
- 投石 【トウセキ】 stone throwing
- 石神 【シャクジン】 stone which is worshipped, image of a god in stone
- 石南花 【シャクナゲ】 rhododendron
- 電磁石 【デンジシャク】 electromagnet
- 界磁石 【カイジシャク】 field magnet
- 石 【コク】 koku, traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres, measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
- 石高 【コクダカ】 (crop) yield, stipend (orig. assessed on the basis of a crop), salary
- 一石 【イッコク】 one koku (measure)
Kun reading compounds
- 石 【いし】 stone, jewel, precious stone, flint (in a lighter), stone, stone (in the bladder, kidney etc.), calculus
- 石垣 【いしがき】 stone wall
- 墓石 【ぼせき】 tombstone, gravestone
- 敷石 【しきいし】 paving stone, pavement
Readings
- Japanese names:
- いさ、 いす、 いわ、 し、 せっく、 と
- Korean:
- seog
Spanish
- piedra
Portuguese
- pedra
French
- pierre
44 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
72 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
45 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
276 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
3176 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
102 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
763 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
172 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
78 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
78 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
102 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1397 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3689 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1884 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2564 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
114 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
24024 | Morohashi |
2971 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3985 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
113 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
118 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
347 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
44 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
3377 | 2001 Kanji |
5a0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-2-3 | SKIP code |
1026.0 | Four corner code |
1060.0 | Four corner code |
1-32-48 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
77f3 | Unicode hex code |