Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
lightning-bug, firefly
Kun:
ほたる
On:
ケイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2031 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蛍光灯 【ケイコウトウ】 fluorescent lamp, fluorescent light, person who is slow to react, someone slow on the uptake
  • 蛍光 【ケイコウ】 fluorescence
  • 流蛍 【リュウケイ】 flying firefly

Kun reading compounds

  • 蛍 【ほたる】 firefly (Luciola cruciata), lightning bug, glowworm
  • 蛍藺 【ほたるい】 Scirpus hotarui (species of bulrush)
  • 海蛍 【うみほたる】 sea firefly (Vargula hilgendorfii), seed shrimp

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ying2
Korean:
hyeong

Spanish

  • luciérnaga

Portuguese

  • pirilampo
  • vaga-lume

French

  • ver luisant
  • luciole
1200 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1925 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1717 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1878 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2043 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1676 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1607 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3204 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1658 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2248 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
524 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32983 Morohashi
2591 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5302 New Nelson (John Haig)
518 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
557 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1482 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3n8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-6 SKIP code
2-3-8 SKIP code
9013.6 Four corner code
3213.6 Four corner code
1-23-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86cd Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
hunt, raid, gather
Kun:
か.るか.り-が.り
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1785 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 狩猟 【シュリョウ】 hunting
  • 狩猟期 【シュリョウキ】 hunting season
  • 巡狩 【ジュンシュ】 Imperial visit

Kun reading compounds

  • 狩る 【かる】 to hunt (animals), to search (for a criminal), to go looking for (flowers, etc.), to gather (mushrooms), to pick (berries)
  • 狩り 【かり】 hunting, harvesting (e.g. berries, fruit), picking, gathering
  • 狩場 【かりば】 hunting ground, hunting preserve
  • 虫狩 【むしかり】 viburnum, Viburnum furcatum

Readings

Japanese names:
かり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou4
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • cacería
  • caza
  • cazar

Portuguese

  • caçar
  • incursão
  • juntar

French

  • chasse
  • poursuivre
  • ramasser
1347 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1650 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2883 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1023 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1524 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
791 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1581 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1687 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1514 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1302 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
474 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
295 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
356 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
248 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20390 Morohashi
397 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3573 New Nelson (John Haig)
243 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
258 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1280 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2948 2001 Kanji
3g6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
4324.2 Four corner code
1-28-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72e9 Unicode hex code