Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かやかんぞう
On:
ケン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2217 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 萱堂 【ケンドウ】 mother

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 萱鼠 【かやねずみ】 harvest mouse (Mus minutus)
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 雄刈萱 【おがるかや】 Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass)
  • 萱草 【かんぞう】 daylily (any flower of the family Hemerocallis), day lily

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xuan1
Korean:
hweon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3989 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1730 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2904 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2016 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31345X Morohashi
5121 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k9.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
4410.6 Four corner code
1-19-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8431 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
rat, mouse
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鼠疫 【ソエキ】 plague, pest
  • 鼠害 【ソガイ】 damage by rats or mice
  • 海鼠 【ナマコ】 sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
  • 飛鼠 【ヒソ】 bat (animal)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠穴 【ねずみあな】 rathole, mousehole
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 臭鼠 【においねずみ】 muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠子 【ねずこ】 Japanese arborvitae (Thuja standishii)
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 梅鼠 【うめねず】 grayish pink, rose grey

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu3
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • ratón
  • rata

Portuguese

French

5417 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2430 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3340 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
48390 Morohashi
2693 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7078 New Nelson (John Haig)
2065 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2856 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-7 SKIP code
2-5-7 SKIP code
7771.7 Four corner code
1-33-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9f20 Unicode hex code