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

13 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 楓 【フウ】 Formosan sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)
  • 楓子香 【フウシコウ】 galbanum (gum resin from fennel)
  • 松楓 【ショウフウ】 maple
  • 紅葉葉楓 【モミジバフウ】 sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), redgum

Kun reading compounds

  • 楓 【かえで】 maple (Acer spp.), maple tree
  • 楓鳥 【かえでちょう】 black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes), estrildid (any bird of family Estrildidae), waxbill
  • 唐楓 【とうかえで】 trident maple, acer buergerianum
  • 砂糖楓 【さとうかえで】 sugar maple (Acer saccharum), rock maple

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
feng1
Korean:
pung

Spanish

  • arce

Portuguese

French

2315 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1892 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2120 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1280 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
694 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
927 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15126 Morohashi
1015 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2777 New Nelson (John Haig)
2471 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2538 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a9.28 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
4791.0 Four corner code
1-41-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6953 Unicode hex code