Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
say, word
Kun:
い.うこと
On:
ゲンゴン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
83 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 言 【ゲン】 word, remark, statement
  • 言及 【ゲンキュウ】 reference, allusion
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 狂言 【キョウゲン】 kyogen, farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play, kabuki play, kabuki performance, make-believe, ruse, trick
  • 言語 【ゲンゴ】 language
  • 言下 【ゲンカ】 promptly
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 二言 【ニゴン】 double-dealing, double tongue, going back on what one has said, repeating oneself

Kun reading compounds

  • 言う 【いう】 to say, to utter, to declare, to name, to call, to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise
  • 言うまでもない 【いうまでもない】 goes without saying, needless to say, obvious
  • 言 【げん】 word, remark, statement
  • 言葉 【ことば】 language, dialect, word, phrase, expression, term, speech, (manner of) speaking, (use of) language, words, remark, statement, comment, learning to speak, language acquisition
  • 禍言 【まがごと】 ominous word, ill-omened word, misfortune
  • 二言 【ふたこと】 two words, repetition

Readings

Japanese names:
とき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
eon

Spanish

  • palabras
  • decir

Portuguese

  • Dizer
  • palavras

French

  • dire
392 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
118 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
274 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
279 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4309 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
43 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
85 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
439 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
66 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
66 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
203 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1653 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2440 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1698 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
341 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35205 Morohashi
1941 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5552 New Nelson (John Haig)
335 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
357 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
44 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
142 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-6 SKIP code
0060.1 Four corner code
1-24-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a00 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
feather
Parts:
learn
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
706 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 習性 【シュウセイ】 habit, behavior, behaviour, trait, nature
  • 習慣 【シュウカン】 habit, (social) custom, practice, convention
  • 演習 【エンシュウ】 practice, exercise, drill, military exercise, manoeuvres, maneuvers, drill, seminar
  • 教習 【キョウシュウ】 training, instruction
  • 近習 【キンジュ】 attendant

Kun reading compounds

  • 習う 【ならう】 to take lessons in, to be taught, to learn (from a teacher), to study (under a teacher), to get training in
  • 習うより慣れろ 【ならうよりなれろ】 experience is the best teacher, custom makes all things easy, you learn best by doing, practice makes perfect, it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught
  • 習い 【ならい】 as is habit, the way life normally is
  • 習い事 【ならいごと】 accomplishment, lessons (in an art, skill, etc.), practice
  • 見習い 【みならい】 apprenticeship, probation, learning by observation, apprentice, trainee, probationer
  • 行儀見習い 【ぎょうぎみならい】 learning good manners through apprenticeship (to an upper-class family)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi2
Korean:
seub

Spanish

  • aprender
  • estudiar

Portuguese

  • aprender

French

  • apprendre
426 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
323 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
307 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
665 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3675 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
320 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
238 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1468 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
591 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
601 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
201 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1572 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3306 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1711 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2324 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
581 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28672P Morohashi
2667 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4681 New Nelson (John Haig)
574 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
616 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
373 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3578 2001 Kanji
4c7.11 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-5 SKIP code
1760.2 Four corner code
1-29-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7fd2 Unicode hex code