Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
vine, tendril, influence, connections, good offices, spread, sprawl, thrive, rampant, powerful
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 蔓延 【マンエン】 spread (e.g. of a disease), rampancy, infestation, proliferation, being widespread
  • まん延防止 【マンエンボウシ】 semi-state of emergency COVID-19 measures

Kun reading compounds

  • 蔓延る 【はびこる】 to become overgrown, to grow thick, to spread, to run rampant, to thrive, to prevail, to become powerful
  • 蔓 【つる】 vine, bine, tendril, runner, bow, temple arm, sidepiece, lug arm, earpiece, part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear, connections, contacts, influence, financial supporter
  • 蔓脚類 【まんきゃくるい】 Cirripedia, barnacles

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
man4, man2, wan4
Korean:
man

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4039 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2192 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2975 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2074 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31784X Morohashi
5180 New Nelson (John Haig)
2359 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2445 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k11.15 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-11 SKIP code
2-4-11 SKIP code
4440.7 Four corner code
1-44-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8513 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
purple, violet
Kun:
むらさき
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1516 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 紫色 【ムラサキイロ】 purple, violet
  • 紫外線 【シガイセン】 ultraviolet rays, ultraviolet radiation
  • 紅紫 【コウシ】 crimson and purple, red-purple, magenta
  • 九紫 【キュウシ】 ninth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mars and south)

Kun reading compounds

  • 紫 【むらさき】 purple, violet, purple gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon), red gromwell, red-root gromwell, soy sauce
  • 紫色 【むらさきいろ】 purple, violet
  • 貝紫 【かいむらさき】 Tyrian purple
  • 古代紫 【こだいむらさき】 reddish-purple

Readings

Japanese names:
さい、 ゆかり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • púrpura
  • violeta

Portuguese

  • roxo
  • violeta

French

  • violet
1320 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1489 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3534 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1392 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1626 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2209 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1389 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1478 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1711 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1507 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3332 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1728 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2348 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1387 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27337X Morohashi
2688 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4486 New Nelson (John Haig)
1375 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1475 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1577 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1241 2001 Kanji
6a6.15 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-6 SKIP code
2-5-6 SKIP code
2290.3 Four corner code
2190.3 Four corner code
1-27-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d2b Unicode hex code