Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
tiger stripes
Parts:
Variants:
tiger, drunkard
Kun:
とら
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1653 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 虎列刺 【コレラ】 cholera
  • 虎疫 【コエキ】 cholera
  • 猛虎 【モウコ】 fierce tiger, ferocious tiger, Hanshin Tigers (baseball team)
  • 竜虎 【リュウコ】 dragon and tiger, two mighty rivals

Kun reading compounds

  • 虎 【とら】 tiger (Panthera tigris), drunkard, drunk, sot
  • 虎葦毛 【とらあしげ】 dapple gray (horse coat color), dapple grey
  • 大虎 【おおとら】 big tiger, drinker, staggering drunkard
  • 小虎 【ことら】 small tiger, light drinker, occasional drinker

Readings

Japanese names:
たけ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu3
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • tigre

Portuguese

French

  • tigre
  • ivrogne
1558 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4105 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1932 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
754 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2234 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1677 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3981 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2048 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2766 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2009 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32675 Morohashi
3212 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5265 New Nelson (John Haig)
1990 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2145 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1257 2001 Kanji
2m6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-4 SKIP code
3-6-2 SKIP code
2121.7 Four corner code
2121.1 Four corner code
1-24-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
864e Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
staff, cane
Kun:
つえ
On:
ジョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2387 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 杖 【ジョウ】 public caning (60-100 strokes; second least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
  • 杖鼓 【ジョウコ】 janggu (Korean hourglass drum), janggo, changgo
  • 聖杖 【セイジョウ】 holy staff, sacred staff
  • 金剛杖 【コンゴウヅエ】 pilgrim's staff

Kun reading compounds

  • 杖 【つえ】 cane, walking stick, staff, wand
  • 杖状 【つえじょう】 staff-shaped
  • 魔法の杖 【まほうのつえ】 magic wand
  • 転ばぬ先の杖 【ころばぬさきのつえ】 prevention is better than cure, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, look before you leap, forewarned is forearmed, a stitch in time saves nine, a walking stick before stumbling

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhang4
Korean:
jang

Spanish

  • caña
  • bastón
  • vara
  • dependencia

Portuguese

French

2183 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
422 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1026 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
736 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14469 Morohashi
2555 New Nelson (John Haig)
2504 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2566 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-3 SKIP code
4590.0 Four corner code
1-30-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6756 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
seacoast, beach, seashore
Kun:
はま
On:
ヒン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
645 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 浜堤 【ヒンテイ】 beach ridge
  • 海浜 【カイヒン】 seashore, seaside, beach
  • 京浜 【ケイヒン】 Tokyo and Yokohama

Kun reading compounds

  • 浜 【はま】 beach, seashore, captured pieces, captured stones, Yokohama, riverbank, riverside
  • 浜辺 【はまべ】 beach, foreshore
  • 白浜 【しらはま】 white sandy beach
  • 塩浜 【しおはま】 saltpan, field for drying salt

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bang1
Korean:
bin

Spanish

  • litoral
  • playa
  • zona costera
  • abreviatura de Yokohama

Portuguese

  • praia
  • costa

French

  • plage
  • rivage
1743 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
418 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2567 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
907 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1473 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1070 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
785 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
799 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
911 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1196 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
523 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
320 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
394 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1344 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17462 Morohashi
436 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3152 New Nelson (John Haig)
1332 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1430 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1358 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
361 2001 Kanji
3a7.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3218.1 Four corner code
1-41-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d5c Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
horse
Parts:
Variants:
station
On:
エキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
724 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 駅 【エキ】 railway station, train station, staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan), counter for railway stations and bus stations
  • 駅員 【エキイン】 (train) station attendant, station employee, station staff
  • 宿駅 【シュクエキ】 relay station, post station, stage
  • 終着駅 【シュウチャクエキ】 terminal station

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
yeog

Spanish

  • estación

Portuguese

  • estação

French

  • gare
158 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
253 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
233 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
384 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5199 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
189 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
101 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2172 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.12 Japanese for Busy People
284 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
284 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
56 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1915 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1184 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1618 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2003 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44633P Morohashi
1822 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6735 New Nelson (John Haig)
1984 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2138 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
426 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3462 2001 Kanji
10a4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-4 SKIP code
7738.7 Four corner code
1-17-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
99c5 Unicode hex code