Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
bean
Parts:
beans, pea, midget
Kun:
まめまめ-
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N1
1422 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 豆腐 【トウフ】 tofu, bean curd, beancurd
  • 豆乳 【トウニュウ】 soy milk
  • 緑豆 【リョクトウ】 mung bean (Vigna radiata), green gram
  • 菜豆 【サイトウ】 haricot, kidney bean
  • 豆打 【ズンダ】 mashed boiled green soybeans
  • 小豆 【アズキ】 adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
  • 大豆 【ダイズ】 soya bean (Glycine max), soybean, soy

Kun reading compounds

  • 豆 【まめ】 legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses), bean, pea, soya bean (Glycine max), soybean, soy, female genitalia (esp. the clitoris), kidney, small, miniature, baby, midget, small-scale, child
  • 豆知識 【まめちしき】 trivia, snippet of knowledge
  • 枝豆 【えだまめ】 edamame (green soybeans)
  • ライ豆 【ライまめ】 lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), butter bean

Readings

Japanese names:
ど、 ま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dou4
Korean:
du

Spanish

  • legumbres
  • habichuelas
  • prefijo diminutivo

Portuguese

  • feijões
  • ervilha
  • nanico

French

  • haricot
  • pois
  • infime
379 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1640 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
988 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4465 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1044 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1773 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
438 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
958 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
988 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
471 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1715 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2442 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1235 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1700 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1452 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36245 Morohashi
1943 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5735 New Nelson (John Haig)
1440 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1548 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
288 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3073 2001 Kanji
3d4.22 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-6 SKIP code
1010.8 Four corner code
1-38-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c46 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
strangle, constrict, wring
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1288 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絞 【コウ】 death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)
  • 絞殺 【コウサツ】 strangulation, strangling

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize
  • 絞める 【しめる】 to strangle, to constrict
  • 絞まる 【しまる】 to be strangled, to be constricted

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao3, jia3
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • constreñir
  • contraer
  • torcer
  • estrujar

Portuguese

  • estrangular
  • apertar
  • torcer

French

  • étrangler
  • serrer
  • tordre
1261 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1825 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3535 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1394 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1630 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1452 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1565 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1533 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1707 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
913 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1236 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1360 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27421 Morohashi
1349 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4485 New Nelson (John Haig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1448 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1576 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2766 2001 Kanji
6a6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
2094.8 Four corner code
1-25-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d5e Unicode hex code