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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- Korean:
- dog, du
Spanish
- leer
Portuguese
- leia
French
- lire
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 |
甘
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1248 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- さつま芋 【サツマイモ】 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
- 甘言 【カンゲン】 sweet words, smooth talk, cajolery, flattery, sycophancy
Kun reading compounds
- 甘い 【あまい】 sweet-tasting, sweet, sugary, sugared, fragrant (smelling), sweet (music), lightly salted, light in salt, not spicy, naive, overly optimistic, soft on, generous, indulgent, easy-going, lenient, half-hearted, not finished properly, insufficient, not satisfactory, inadequate, loose, mild, tempting, enticing, luring
- 甘い顔をする 【あまいかおをする】 to go easy on someone, to be easygoing, to be lenient
- 甘える 【あまえる】 to behave like a spoiled child, to fawn on, to take advantage of, to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence), to depend on
- 甘やかす 【あまやかす】 to pamper, to spoil
- 上手い 【うまい】 skillful, skilful, skilled, good, expert, clever (expression, trick, etc.), apt, appropriate, delicious, tasty, good, nice, good (deal, idea, etc.), profitable, promising, lucky, fortunate, successful, satisfactory, splendid
- うまい話 【うまいはなし】 too-good-to-be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds), too-good-to-be-true stories
Readings
- Japanese names:
- かも
- Korean:
- gam
Spanish
- dulce
- sabroso
- bueno
- tener cariño a
- mimar
- consentir
Portuguese
- doce
- seduzir
- mimar
- contentar
- açucarado
French
- doux
- enjôler
- dorloter
- être content
- sucré
1093 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1212 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
2988 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1333 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
738 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
207 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1492 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1591 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
345 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1325 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4306 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2176 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2930 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1773 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
21643 | Morohashi |
3494 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
3710 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1757 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1894 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1052 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
1978 | 2001 Kanji |
0a5.32 | The Kanji Dictionary |
4-5-2 | SKIP code |
4-4-2 | SKIP code |
4477.0 | Four corner code |
1-20-37 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
7518 | Unicode hex code |