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

10 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
nail, tack, peg
Kun:
くぎ
On:
テイチョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2496 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 釘頭 【テイトウ】 nailhead
  • 装丁 【ソウテイ】 binding (of a book), design (of a book cover)

Kun reading compounds

  • 釘 【くぎ】 nail, spike, tack, rivet, brad, (pachinko) pin
  • 釘隠 【くぎかくし】 nail hider, nailhead cover, decorative object which conceals the head of a nail
  • 合い釘 【あいくぎ】 double-pointed nail, dowel
  • 鋲釘 【びょうくぎ】 rivet, tack, thumbtack, drawing-pin, hobnail

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ding1, ding4
Korean:
jeong

Spanish

  • clavo
  • clavija
  • tachuela

Portuguese

French

4816 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1154 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2100 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1489 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
40159 Morohashi
1667 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6217 New Nelson (John Haig)
2766 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2788 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8a2.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-2 SKIP code
8112.0 Four corner code
1-37-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91d8 Unicode hex code