Jisho

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蓬

13 strokes (also 14)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
一 ｜ 込 夂 艾
sagebrush, wormwood, mugwort
Kun:
よもぎ
On:
ホウ、 ブ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

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On reading compounds

  • 蓬客 【ホウカク】 wanderer, drifter
  • 蓬窓 【ホウソウ】 window with a view of a Japanese mugwort thicket, poor house, humble house, primitive house

Kun reading compounds

  • 蓬 【よもぎ】 Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps), mugwort (any plant of genus Artemisia), wormwood, sagebrush
  • 蓬生 【よもぎう】 wasteland, area overgrown with weeds
  • 大蓬 【おおよもぎ】 Artemisia montana
  • 背高蓬 【せいたかよもぎ】 Artemisia selengensis

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
peng2
Korean:
bong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4023 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2195 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2973 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2072 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31720 Morohashi
5099 New Nelson (John Haig)
2375 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2458 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k10.32 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-4-11 SKIP code
4430.4 Four corner code
1-43-09 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
84ec Unicode hex code

莱

10 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
｜ 二 亠 艾 木 米
Variants:
萊
goosefoot, pigweed
Kun:
あかざ、 あわち、 こうがい
On:
ライ、 リ

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 蓬莱 【ホウライ】 Mount Penglai, Penglai Island, enchanted land of perpetual youth from Chinese mythology, sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.), Kansai New Year decoration (made from food), Formosa, Taiwan
  • 三蓬莱 【サンホウライ】 the three sacred mountains: Fuji, Atsuta, and Kumano

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lai2
Korean:
rae

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3960 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2847 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
31262X Morohashi
5039 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-7 SKIP code
2-4-7 SKIP code
4490.8 Four corner code
1-45-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83b1 Unicode hex code

閣

14 strokes
Radical:
gate 門
Parts:
口 夂 門
Variants:
tower, tall building, palace
On:
カク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
444 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 閣内 【カクナイ】 (inside the) Cabinet
  • 閣議 【カクギ】 cabinet meeting
  • 倒閣 【トウカク】 overthrow of government
  • 影の内閣 【カゲノナイカク】 shadow cabinet

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ge2
Korean:
gag

Spanish

  • torre
  • edificio alto
  • palacio
  • gabinete

Portuguese

  • torre
  • edifício alto
  • palácio

French

  • tour
  • tour (immeuble)
  • palais
837 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
822 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
480 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4957 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1373 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1862 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
837 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
856 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1193 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1843 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4128 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2098 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2841 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1638 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41300 Morohashi
3327 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6401 New Nelson (John Haig)
1624 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1752 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
970 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3877 2001 Kanji
8e6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-8-6 SKIP code
7760.4 Four corner code
1-19-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
95a3 Unicode hex code