Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
boast, be proud, pride, triumphantly
Kun:
ほこ.る
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1272 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 誇張 【コチョウ】 exaggeration
  • 誇大 【コダイ】 exaggeration, hyperbole

Kun reading compounds

  • 誇る 【ほこる】 to boast of, to be proud of, to take pride in

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kua1
Korean:
gwa

Spanish

  • orgullo
  • jactancia
  • alarde
  • exageración
  • enorgullecerse
  • alardear
  • ostentar
  • exagerar

Portuguese

  • contar vantagem
  • estar orgulhoso
  • orgulho
  • triunfantemente

French

  • vantardise
  • orgueil
  • fierté
  • triomphant
1233 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1157 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4354 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1202 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1753 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1629 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1739 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
950 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1679 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1921 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1022 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1381 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1252 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35474 Morohashi
1522 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5605 New Nelson (John Haig)
1244 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1332 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1666 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3052 2001 Kanji
7a6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-6 SKIP code
1-7-7 SKIP code
0462.7 Four corner code
1-24-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a87 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
self
Parts:
oneself
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
19 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 自 【ジ】 self-, from (a time or place)
  • 自営 【ジエイ】 running one's own business, doing business on one's own, self-employment
  • 出自 【シュツジ】 origin, birthplace, descent, lineage, ancestry, stock
  • 海自 【カイジ】 Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • 自然界 【シゼンカイ】 nature, the natural world, realm of nature
  • 自然 【シゼン】 nature, natural, spontaneous, automatic, naturally, spontaneously, automatically
  • 己がじし 【オノガジシ】 each (and every one), individually

Kun reading compounds

  • 自ら 【みずから】 oneself, oneself, for oneself, personally, in person
  • 自ら進んで 【みずからすすんで】 by choice, of one's own free will, on one's own initiative, off one's own bat
  • 自ずから 【おのずから】 naturally, in due course, by itself, of its own accord
  • 自ずから明らか 【おのずからあきらか】 self-evident
  • 自ずと 【おのずと】 naturally, in due course, by itself, of its own accord

Readings

Japanese names:
より
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi4
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • uno mismo
  • por sí mismo
  • auto-

Portuguese

  • a si próprio

French

  • soi-même
229 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
150 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
134 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
53 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3841 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
60 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
242 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
340 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.19 Japanese for Busy People
62 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
62 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
63 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1587 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4338 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2954 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
36 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30095 Morohashi
3525 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4900 New Nelson (John Haig)
36 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
36 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
14 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
126 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
879 2001 Kanji
5c1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-2 SKIP code
2600.0 Four corner code
1-28-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81ea Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
field
Parts:
wherefore, a reason
Kun:
よしよ.る
On:
ユウユイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
325 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 由来 【ユライ】 origin, source, history, derivation, originally, from the start, by nature
  • 由緒 【ユイショ】 history, pedigree, lineage
  • 来由 【ライユ】 origin, cause
  • 因由 【インユ】 cause
  • 事由 【ジユウ】 reason, cause
  • 服装自由 【フクソウジユウ】 no dress code, lack of dress code (at work)
  • 由緒 【ユイショ】 history, pedigree, lineage
  • 由緒ある 【ユイショアル】 venerable, prestigious, with a long history

Kun reading compounds

  • 由 【よし】 reason, significance, cause, piece of information that one has heard, I hear that ..., it is said that ...
  • 由ありげ 【よしありげ】 meaningful, suggestive, seeming to be with a history, seeming to be with circumstances that are hard to explain
  • 候由 【そうろうよし】 I hear that ...
  • 依る 【よる】 to be due to, to be caused by, to depend on, to turn on, to be based on, to come from, to be based at (a location, an organization), to be headquartered at

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
you2
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • razón
  • significado
  • causa

Portuguese

  • porquanto
  • por conseguinte
  • uma razão

French

  • c'est pourquoi
  • raison
  • cause
  • origine
  • grave
325 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
421 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
399 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
376 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
89 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
297 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
739 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
186 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
363 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
364 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
623 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1333 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4311 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2181 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2935 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1114 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21724 Morohashi
3499 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3724 New Nelson (John Haig)
1105 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1186 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
134 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
261 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1676 2001 Kanji
0a5.35 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
5060.0 Four corner code
1-45-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7531 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
bosom, breast, chest, heart, feelings
Kun:
むねむな-
On:
キョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1144 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 胸部 【キョウブ】 chest, breast
  • 胸中 【キョウチュウ】 one's heart, one's mind, one's intentions
  • 豊胸 【ホウキョウ】 full breasts, ample breasts, breast enlargement
  • 開胸 【カイキョウ】 thoracotomy

Kun reading compounds

  • 胸 【むね】 chest, breast, breasts, bosom, bust, heart, lungs, stomach, heart, mind, feelings
  • 胸赤鶸 【むねあかひわ】 Eurasian linnet (Carduelis cannabina)
  • 両胸 【りょうむね】 both sides of the chest, both breasts
  • 鳩胸 【はとむね】 pigeon chest (deformity of the chest, protruding ribs and sternum), pigeon breast, pectus carinatum, woman with big breasts, iron armor with protruding chest, curved front portion of a stirrup, curve at the base of a shamisen neck

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiong1
Korean:
hyung

Spanish

  • pecho
  • corazón
  • sentimientos

Portuguese

  • seio
  • peito
  • tórax
  • coração
  • sentimentos

French

  • poitrine
  • seins
  • coeur
  • sentiments
851 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
840 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1085 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3768 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1149 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
846 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1347 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1283 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1357 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1086 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1030 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1187 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
647 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
858 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1504 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29442 Morohashi
951 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4811 New Nelson (John Haig)
1491 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1604 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
897 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3952 2001 Kanji
4b6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
7722.0 Four corner code
1-22-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80f8 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
song, sing
Kun:
うたうた.う
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
519 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 歌劇 【カゲキ】 opera
  • 歌曲 【カキョク】 melody, tune, song
  • 演歌 【エンカ】 enka, traditional-style Japanese popular ballad, troubadour
  • 和歌 【ワカ】 waka, classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

Kun reading compounds

  • 歌 【うた】 song, singing, classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka), modern poetry
  • 歌合 【うたあわせ】 poetry contest
  • 短歌 【たんか】 tanka, 31-mora Japanese poem
  • 替え歌 【かえうた】 parody (of a song), new lyrics to an old melody, song parody
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)
  • 歌うたい 【うたうたい】 singer, vocalist, nagauta singer (in kabuki), singer of noh chants

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ge1
Korean:
ga

Spanish

  • canción
  • cantar

Portuguese

  • canção
  • cantar

French

  • chanson
  • chanter
166 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
90 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
84 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
478 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2422 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
256 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
201 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2170 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.18 Japanese for Busy People
392 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
395 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
200 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1125 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2296 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1187 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1621 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
480 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16167 Morohashi
1825 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2945 New Nelson (John Haig)
469 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
508 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
486 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
230 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3162 2001 Kanji
4j10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-4 SKIP code
1768.2 Four corner code
1-18-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b4c Unicode hex code