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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蠅頭 【ヨウトウ】 small characters, tiny handwriting, as small as the head of a fly, small profit
  • 青蠅 【アオバエ】 bluebottle fly, little pest

Kun reading compounds

  • 蠅 【はえ】 fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha), person of no worth, pisher, scrub
  • 蝿地獄 【はえじごく】 Venus flytrap, Venus's flytrap
  • 蝿帳 【はいちょう】 fly-net cupboard
  • ハエ取り 【はえとり】 catching flies, fly-catcher, flytrap, flypaper, jumping spider

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ying2
Korean:
seung

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4194 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
33690 Morohashi
5394 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-13 SKIP code
5611.6 Four corner code
1-74-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8805 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
strike, beat, kow tow, hit, thrash, criticize
2316 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 叩解 【コウカイ】 beating (in papermaking), refining
  • 叩首 【コウシュ】 kowtow

Kun reading compounds

  • 叩く 【たたく】 to strike, to hit, to beat, to knock, to pound, to bang, to slap, to spank, to tap, to pat, to clap (one's hands), to play (the drums), to attack, to bash, to criticize, to censure, to flame (on the Internet), to sound out (someone's views), to pound (meat or fish), to chop into small pieces, to beat down the price, to talk (big, bad, idly, etc.), to call, to invoke (e.g. a function)
  • 叩く 【はたく】 to dust, to remove dust, to slap, to hit (with the palm), to use up money

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kou4
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • golpe
  • ataque
  • golpear
  • atacar
  • apalear
  • criticar

Portuguese

French

876 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
208 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3238 Morohashi
696 New Nelson (John Haig)
2166 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2285 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-2 SKIP code
6702.0 Four corner code
1-35-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53e9 Unicode hex code