Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
clothes 衣 (衤)
Parts:
back, amidst, in, reverse, inside, palm, sole, rear, lining, wrong side
Kun:
うら
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
812 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 裏 【リ】 in (e.g. secret), with (e.g. success)
  • 裏面 【リメン】 back (side), reverse, the inside, background, dark side (e.g. of society), behind the scenes, beneath the surface
  • 内裏 【ダイリ】 imperial palace, festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
  • 影裏 【エイリ】 shade

Kun reading compounds

  • 裏 【うら】 opposite side, bottom, other side, side hidden from view, undersurface, reverse side, rear, back, behind, lining, inside, in the shadows, behind the scenes, offstage, behind (someone's) back, more (to something than meets the eye), hidden side (e.g. of one's personality), unknown circumstances, different side, proof, opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.), contrary, inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.), bottom (of an inning), last half (of an inning)
  • 裏方 【うらかた】 someone working behind-the-scenes, scene shifter, lady consort (to a high personage)
  • 舞台裏 【ぶたいうら】 offstage, backstage, behind the scenes
  • 口裏 【くちうら】 determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning, determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech, divining good or bad luck from listening to someone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li3
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • reverso
  • opuesto
  • parte interior
  • en esa situación
  • interior

Portuguese

  • costas
  • no meio de
  • em
  • inverter
  • interior
  • palma
  • atrás
  • forro
  • lado errado

French

  • arrière
  • revers
  • verso
  • intérieur
  • semelle
  • paume
  • envers
  • doublure
  • mauvais côté
1002 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
992 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
755 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
327 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1076 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
883 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2176 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
273 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
273 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
436 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1627 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2652 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1354 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1836 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
406 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
34294 Morohashi
2138 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5462 New Nelson (John Haig)
399 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
426 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
969 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
465 2001 Kanji
2j11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-11 SKIP code
0073.2 Four corner code
1-46-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
88cf Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
door, house 戶 (户, 戸)
Parts:
front door, title page, front page
Kun:
とびら
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1866 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 開扉 【カイヒ】 opening a door
  • 小開扉 【ショウカイヒ】 opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.)

Kun reading compounds

  • 扉 【とびら】 door, gate, opening, title page
  • 扉絵 【とびらえ】 frontispiece
  • 自動扉 【じどうとびら】 automatic door
  • 前扉 【まえとびら】 front door (of a cabinet, bus, etc.), half-title (of a book), bastard title

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fei1
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • puerta principal
  • puerta corredera

Portuguese

  • porta frontal
  • página de título
  • página frontal

French

  • porte d'entrée
  • première page
  • page de titre
1730 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1838 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1825 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1334 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1556 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1658 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1734 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
846 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2453 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1240 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1705 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1653 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11750X Morohashi
1955 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2058 New Nelson (John Haig)
1638 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1766 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1536 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3054 2001 Kanji
4m8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-11 SKIP code
3021.1 Four corner code
1-40-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6249 Unicode hex code