Jisho

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蝦

15 strokes
Radical:
insect 虫
Parts:
又 口 虫
shrimp, prawn, lobster
Kun:
えび
On:
カ、 ゲ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2501 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蛙 【カエル】 frog, kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)
  • 海老尾 【エビオ】 goldfish with a shrimp-like tail, head of a shamisen or lute (bent back like a shrimp's tail)

Kun reading compounds

  • 海老 【えび】 prawn, shrimp, lobster
  • 海老芋 【えびいも】 shrimp-shaped taro variety
  • 鉄砲蝦 【てっぽうえび】 snapping shrimp (Alpheus brevicristatus), pistol prawn
  • 猩猩蝦 【しょうじょうえび】 kangaroo shrimp (Glyphus marsupialis)

Readings

Japanese names:
えみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xia1, ha2
Korean:
ha

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4172 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2313 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1773 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1279 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
33299 Morohashi
5364 New Nelson (John Haig)
2689 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2728 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d9.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
5714.7 Four corner code
1-18-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8766 Unicode hex code

夷

6 strokes
Radical:
big, very 大
Parts:
一 ノ 大 弓
barbarian, savage, Ainu
Kun:
えびす、 えみし、 ころ.す、 たい.らげる
On:
イ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2324 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 夷 【イ】 barbarian
  • 夷国 【イコク】 land of the barbarians
  • 攘夷 【ジョウイ】 expulsion of foreigners
  • 征夷 【セイイ】 defeating barbarians (esp. the Emishi), conquering barbarians

Kun reading compounds

  • 夷 【えびす】 peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu), provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city), brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan), foreigner, barbarian
  • 恵比寿 【えびす】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 東夷 【あずまえびす】 warrior from the eastern parts of Japan, eastern barbarians, people east of China (from the perspective of China)
  • 荒夷 【あらえびす】 crude warrior from the eastern parts of Japan, wild man

Readings

Japanese names:
し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi2
Korean:
i

Spanish

  • bárbaro
  • salvaje

Portuguese

French

182 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
535 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4349 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2962 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
5852 Morohashi
1143 New Nelson (John Haig)
2881 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2893 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a6.24 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-4 SKIP code
5003.2 Four corner code
1-16-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5937 Unicode hex code

菫

11 strokes (also 12)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
一 ｜ 二 口 土 艾
the violet
Kun:
すみれ
On:
キン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 菫青石 【キンセイセキ】 cordierite

Kun reading compounds

  • 菫 【すみれ】 violet (any flower of genus Viola, esp. the Fuji dawn, Viola mandshurica)
  • すみれ色 【すみれいろ】 violet (colour)
  • 匂菫 【においすみれ】 sweet violet (Viola odorata)
  • アフリカ菫 【アフリカすみれ】 African violet

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jin3
Korean:
geun

Spanish

  • violeta

Portuguese

French

3972 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1453 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2219 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2877 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1485 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2001 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31207X Morohashi
5086 New Nelson (John Haig)
2099 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2239 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2-4-8 SKIP code
4410.4 Four corner code
1-72-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83eb Unicode hex code