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

Speed

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

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

14 strokes (also 15)
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
Variants:
mochi rice cake
Kun:
もちもちい
On:
ヘイヒョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2152 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 餅餤 【ベイダン】 Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares
  • 餅盤 【ヘイバン】 laccolith
  • 画餅 【ガベイ】 something useless, picture of rice cakes
  • 供餅 【クモチ】 mochi rice cakes used as offering

Kun reading compounds

  • 餅 【もち】 mochi, (sticky) rice cake
  • 餅網 【もちあみ】 grill or grate for toasting rice cakes
  • 椿餅 【つばいもちい】 rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
  • 五平餅 【ごへいもち】 skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso
  • 餅 【もち】 mochi, (sticky) rice cake
  • 餅いなり 【もちいなり】 sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu
  • 椿餅 【つばいもちい】 rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
  • 愛敬の餅 【あいきょうのもちい】 Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing3
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • pastel de pasta de arroz

Portuguese

French

5166 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2346 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1219 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2256 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1596 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
44133X Morohashi
6689 New Nelson (John Haig)
2802 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1590 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2855 2001 Kanji
8b6.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-6 SKIP code
8874.1 Four corner code
1-44-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9905 Unicode hex code