Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
insect, bug, temper
Kun:
むし
On:
チュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1351 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 虫垂炎 【チュウスイエン】 appendicitis
  • 虫えい 【チュウエイ】 gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
  • 幼虫 【ヨウチュウ】 larva, grub, maggot
  • 寄生虫 【キセイチュウ】 parasite
  • 虫部 【キブ】 insect radical, worm radical
  • 蟻巻 【アリマキ】 aphid, plant louse, plant lice

Kun reading compounds

  • 虫 【むし】 insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm, roundworm, thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious, nervousness, fretfulness, person devoted to one thing, single-minded person, valve core, mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
  • 虫歯 【むしば】 tooth decay, cavity, decayed tooth, dental caries
  • 苦虫 【にがむし】 bitter-tasting bug
  • 馬追虫 【うまおいむし】 Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid), Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chong2, hui3
Korean:
hwe, chung

Spanish

  • insecto
  • bicho

Portuguese

  • inseto
  • bichinho
  • temperamento

French

  • insecte
  • vermine
  • ver
  • reptile
  • colère
114 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
74 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
56 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1073 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4115 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
133 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
875 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
324 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
873 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
893 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
466 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1604 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4343 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2199 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2959 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
523 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32804 Morohashi
3530 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5275 New Nelson (John Haig)
517 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
556 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
60 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1671 2001 Kanji
6d0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-3 SKIP code
2-4-2 SKIP code
5013.6 Four corner code
1-35-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
866b Unicode hex code

22 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
Variants:
basket, devote oneself, seclude oneself, cage, coop, implied
Kun:
かごこ.めるこも.るこ.む
On:
ロウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 牢 【ロウ】 prison, jail, gaol, firm, solid, strong
  • 籠球 【ロウキュウ】 basketball
  • 蒸籠 【セイロ】 bamboo steamer, steaming basket, wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot, soba served on a small wickerwork tray, wickerwork tray (for serving soba)
  • 灯籠 【トウロウ】 garden lantern, hanging lantern

Kun reading compounds

  • 籠 【かご】 basket (shopping, etc.), hamper, cage
  • 籠で水を汲む 【かごでみずをくむ】 to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon, to scoop water with a basket
  • 相合駕籠 【あいあいかご】 two people riding in a palanquin together (esp. a man and a woman)
  • ほい駕籠 【ほいかご】 crude palanquin, street palanquin
  • 込める 【こめる】 to load (a gun, etc.), to charge, to put into (e.g. emotion, effort), to include (e.g. tax in a sales price), to hang over, to shroud, to enshroud, to envelop, to screen
  • 籠もる 【こもる】 to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room), to be confined in, to seclude oneself, to hide away, to stay inside (one's shell), to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.), to imbue with, to infuse with, to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.), to be heavy with (e.g. smoke), to be stuffy, to be dense, to be muffled (e.g. voice), to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.), to confine oneself in a temple to pray

Readings

Japanese names:
ごめ、 もり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
long2, long3
Korean:
rong

Spanish

  • cesto
  • canasta
  • palanquín
  • confinarse
  • recluirse
  • confinar
  • recluir
  • engatusar
  • seducir

Portuguese

French

3458 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2977 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1888 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3398 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2383 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26752 Morohashi
2734 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4376 New Nelson (John Haig)
6f16.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-16 SKIP code
8821.1 Four corner code
8871.6 Four corner code
1-68-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c60 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:
Variants:
window, pane
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
1186 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 窓外 【ソウガイ】 outside a window
  • 窓間壁 【ソウカンヘキ】 pier
  • 同窓 【ドウソウ】 being a graduate of the same school, person who went to the same school, fellow alumnus
  • 車窓 【シャソウ】 train window, car window

Kun reading compounds

  • 窓 【まど】 window
  • 窓口 【まどぐち】 counter, window, teller window, ticket window, contact person, point of contact
  • 引違い窓 【ひきちがいまど】 double sliding window
  • 鎧窓 【よろいまど】 louvered window
  • 回転窓 【かいてんまど】 pivoted window

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuang1
Korean:
chang

Spanish

  • ventana
  • habitación

Portuguese

  • janela
  • vidraça

French

  • fenêtre
  • vitre
931 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
919 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
917 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3326 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1029 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
786 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1746 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
698 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
711 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
231 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2859 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1476 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1986 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1328 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25494 Morohashi
2294 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4201 New Nelson (John Haig)
749 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
811 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
926 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
758 2001 Kanji
3m8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2-5-6 SKIP code
3033.3 Four corner code
1-33-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a93 Unicode hex code