Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
valley
Parts:
valley
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
508 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 谷底平野 【コクテイヘイヤ】 valley plain
  • 渓谷 【ケイコク】 valley (with a river running through it), gorge, ravine, canyon
  • 盤谷 【バンコク】 Bangkok (Thailand)

Kun reading compounds

  • 谷 【たに】 valley
  • 谷間 【たにま】 valley, ravine, gorge, chasm, cleavage (of breasts), part or place that has been left behind, blind spot, bottom (of society), (economic) trough, gap (in activity, one's work, etc.), lull, opening
  • 死の谷 【しのたに】 valley of death (barrier between product development and commercialization stages)
  • 気圧の谷 【きあつのたに】 low pressure trough
  • 極まる 【きわまる】 to reach an extreme, to reach a limit, to terminate, to come to an end, extremely, to be stuck, to be in a dilemma, to be at a loss, to be decided, to be settled

Readings

Japanese names:
がい、 がえ、 がや、 せ、 たり、 たん、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu3, yu4
Korean:
gog, yog

Spanish

  • valle

Portuguese

  • vale

French

  • vallée
78 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
135 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
122 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
249 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4458 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
528 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
914 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
449 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
653 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
664 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
458 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1714 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2536 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1290 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1758 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
796 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36182 Morohashi
2043 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5730 New Nelson (John Haig)
788 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
851 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
143 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2077 2001 Kanji
2o5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-5 SKIP code
8060.8 Four corner code
1-35-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c37 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Kun:
かわ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
  • 山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
  • 四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kun reading compounds

  • 川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
  • 川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
  • 堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
  • 山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • arroyo
  • río

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • rio

French

  • rivière
  • fleuve
  • radical rivière (no. 47)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
59 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
48 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
41 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
49 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
20 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
33 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
33 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
101 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
6 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8673 Morohashi
6 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1526 New Nelson (John Haig)
127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
21 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
0a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
2200.0 Four corner code
1-32-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ddd Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
Variants:
point, peak, mountain
Kun:
たけ
On:
ガク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1334 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 岳人 【ガクジン】 alpinist, mountaineer
  • 岳神 【ガクジン】 mountain god
  • 富岳 【フガク】 Mount Fuji

Kun reading compounds

  • 岳 【たけ】 peak, mountain
  • 岳烏 【だけがらす】 spotted nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)
  • 御嶽 【みたけ】 large, high mountain

Readings

Japanese names:
おか、 たか、 たけん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yue4
Korean:
ag

Spanish

  • montaña alta
  • pico

Portuguese

  • ponto
  • pico
  • montanha

French

  • pointe
  • pic
  • montagne
1082 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1091 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
208 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1772 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1238 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
956 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1358 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1442 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1851 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
537 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3164 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1627 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2213 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1342 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8001 Morohashi
2557 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1457 New Nelson (John Haig)
1330 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1428 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1167 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2676 2001 Kanji
3o5.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-3 SKIP code
7277.2 Four corner code
1-19-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5cb3 Unicode hex code