Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
Kun:
On:
ヨウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
414 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 葉 【ヨウ】 counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc., counter for boats
  • 葉胃 【ヨウイ】 omasum, psalterium, third compartment of the stomach in ruminants
  • 紅葉 【コウヨウ】 leaves turning red (in autumn), red leaves, autumn colours, fall colors
  • 前頭葉 【ゼントウヨウ】 frontal lobe

Kun reading compounds

  • 葉 【は】 leaf, blade (of grass), (pine) needle
  • 葉書 【はがき】 postcard, memo, note, card
  • 一葉 【いちよう】 one leaf, one page, one sheet, one card, one photo, one boat
  • 枝葉 【えだは】 branches and leaves, foliage, unimportant details, nonessentials, side issue, digression

Readings

Japanese names:
よ、 わ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie2, ye4, she4
Korean:
yeob, seob

Spanish

  • hoja
  • contador de cosas planas
  • follaje

Portuguese

  • folha
  • avião
  • ponta
  • agulha
  • lâmina
  • lança
  • sufixo p/ contagem de coisas chatas

French

  • feuille
  • lobe
  • aiguille
  • brin (herbe)
  • fragment
  • compteur d'objets plats
327 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
428 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
405 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
405 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4001 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
179 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
870 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1991 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
253 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
253 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
569 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
663 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2912 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1497 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2024 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
233 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31387P Morohashi
2321 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5129 New Nelson (John Haig)
228 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
243 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
275 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
412 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k9.21 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-3-8 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-45-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8449 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
design, pattern, build, nature, character, handle, crank, grip, knob, shaft
Kun:
がらつか
On:
ヘイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1140 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 柄節 【ヘイセツ】 scape (of an insect)
  • 政柄 【セイヘイ】 political power
  • 羽柄 【ウヘイ】 calamus, quill

Kun reading compounds

  • 柄 【がら】 pattern, design, body build, figure, physique, essential qualities, character, nature, appropriate to, fitting of, suitable for
  • ガラが悪い 【ガラがわるい】 ill-bred, vulgar, boorish
  • 土地柄 【とちがら】 nature of the locality, character of a place, local colour, local color
  • 役柄 【やくがら】 role
  • 柄 【え】 handle, grip, stalk (of a mushroom, leaf, etc.)
  • 柄鏡 【えかがみ】 traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period
  • 長柄 【ながえ】 long handle, long-handled spear, long shaft
  • 柄 【つか】 hilt (of a sword), haft (of a dagger), handle, handgrip
  • 柄頭 【つかがしら】 pommel
  • 鎌柄 【かまつか】 pike gudgeon (Pseudogobio esocinus), Oriental photinia (Photinia villosa), Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis), Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor), tampala, sickle handle

Readings

Japanese names:
から、 ら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing3
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • asa
  • agarradera
  • diseño
  • patrón
  • dibujo
  • figura

Portuguese

  • projeto
  • modelo
  • construção
  • natureza
  • cabo
  • manivela
  • maçaneta
  • puxador

French

  • dessin
  • motif
  • construire
  • nature
  • manche
  • poignée
  • bouton
  • manivelle
1776 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
904 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2234 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1168 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1424 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
862 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
985 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1019 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
989 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1085 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1111 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
604 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
799 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1030 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14603 Morohashi
897 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2627 New Nelson (John Haig)
1021 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1097 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1270 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1853 2001 Kanji
4a5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-5 SKIP code
4192.7 Four corner code
1-42-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67c4 Unicode hex code