Jisho

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読

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
儿 冖 士 言
Variants:
讀
read
Kun:
よ.む、 -よ.み
On:
ドク、 トク、 トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
  • 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
  • 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
  • 読点 【トウテン】 comma
  • 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
  • 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)

Kun reading compounds

  • 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

Readings

Japanese names:
よみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du2, dou4
Korean:
dog, du

Spanish

  • leer

Portuguese

  • leia

French

  • lire
123 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
206 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
189 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
484 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4375 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
55 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
88 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2142 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
244 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
244 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
180 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1689 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1943 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1038 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
354 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35580P Morohashi
1541 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5629 New Nelson (John Haig)
348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
372 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
323 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
233 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
7a7.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0461.2 Four corner code
1-38-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8aad Unicode hex code

書

10 strokes
Radical:
say 曰
Parts:
日 聿
write
Kun:
か.く、 -が.き、 -がき
On:
ショ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
169 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 書 【ショ】 book, document, calligraphy (esp. Chinese), penmanship, handwriting, letter, note
  • 書院 【ショイン】 drawing room, study, writing alcove, publishing house
  • 投書 【トウショ】 letter (e.g. of complaint), letter to the editor, letter from a reader, contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
  • 議定書 【ギテイショ】 protocol

Kun reading compounds

  • 書く 【かく】 to write, to compose, to pen, to draw, to paint

Readings

Japanese names:
かき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu1
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • escritura
  • escrito
  • escribir

Portuguese

  • escrever

French

  • écrire
92 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
159 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
142 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
130 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3719 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
70 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
58 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1216 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
131 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
131 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
181 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
998 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1703 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2314 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
333 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14294 Morohashi
2658 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2463 New Nelson (John Haig)
327 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
349 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
121 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
197 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1678 2001 Kanji
4c6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-4 SKIP code
5060.1 Four corner code
1-29-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66f8 Unicode hex code

百

6 strokes
Radical:
white 白
Parts:
一 白
hundred
Kun:
もも
On:
ヒャク、 ビャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
163 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 百 【ヒャク】 hundred, 100
  • １００億 【ヒャクオク】 10,000,000,000, ten billion
  • ９００ 【キュウヒャク】 900, nine hundred, fool, idiot
  • ５００ 【ゴヒャク】 500, five hundred, many
  • 凡百 【ボンピャク】 various, many, all kinds of

Kun reading compounds

  • 百 【もも】 hundred, 100, (a great) many
  • 百重 【ももえ】 piling up highly, becoming a large pile

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 ど、 どう、 なり、 ひゃっ、 ひゅく、 も、 もんど、 ゆう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bai3, bo2
Korean:
baeg, maeg

Spanish

  • cien
  • muchos

Portuguese

  • cem

French

  • cent
130 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
11 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
67 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
73 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
33 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
82 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
74 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
265 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
14 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
14 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
11 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1363 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2519 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1279 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1746 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
38 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22679 Morohashi
2026 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3864 New Nelson (John Haig)
38 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
38 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
218 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
50 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3178 2001 Kanji
4c2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
4-6-1 SKIP code
1060.0 Four corner code
1-41-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
767e Unicode hex code

遍

12 strokes (also 11)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
一 ｜ 冂 込 尸 廾 戸 冊
everywhere, times, widely, generally
Kun:
あまね.く
On:
ヘン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1845 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 遍 【ヘン】 number of times
  • 遍歴 【ヘンレキ】 travels, pilgrimage, itinerancy, (accumulated) experiences, (personal) history
  • 普遍 【フヘン】 universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent

Kun reading compounds

  • 遍く 【あまねく】 widely, extensively, far and wide, everywhere, all around, generally, universally

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bian4, pian4
Korean:
pyeon

Spanish

  • amplio
  • general
  • universal
  • contador de vueltas/veces

Portuguese

  • em toda parte
  • tempos
  • amplamente

French

  • partout
  • -fois
  • largement
  • généralement
1783 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1861 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4718 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1279 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1815 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1805 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1160 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1215 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1177 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
711 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3890 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2002 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2703 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1841 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39001P Morohashi
3136 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6086 New Nelson (John Haig)
1824 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1965 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1595 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3053 2001 Kanji
2q9.16 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-9 SKIP code
3330.2 Four corner code
1-42-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
904d Unicode hex code