| 169 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 49 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 90 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1590 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4486 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 44 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 917 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 498 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 240 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 240 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 719 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1720 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3150 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1614 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2200 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 54 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 36656 | Morohashi |
| 2543 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5766 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 54 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 56 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 70 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1787 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 貝 【バイ】 Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica), Japanese ivory shell, spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)
- 貝貨 【バイカ】 shell money
- 越虫貝 【エッチュウバイ】 finely-striate buccinum (species of whelk, Buccinum striatissimum)
- 蝦夷貝 【エゾバイ】 Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)
Kun reading compounds
- 貝 【かい】 shellfish, seashell, shell
- 貝殻 【かいがら】 seashell, shell
- 魚介 【ぎょかい】 marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish
- パウア貝 【パウアかい】 paua (edible New Zealand abalone; species Haliotis iris, H. australis, H. virginea)
Readings
- Korean:
- pae
Spanish
- concha
Portuguese
- Marisco
- conchas
French
- coquillage
| 3961 | 2001 Kanji |
| 7b0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-5-2 | SKIP code |
| 6080.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-19-13 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8c9d | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1892 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 殻 【カク】 shell (e.g. electron shell)
- 殻果 【カクカ】 hard-shelled nut (e.g. walnut, pecan, almond)
- 地殻 【チカク】 (Earth's) crust
- 介殻 【カイカク】 sea shell
- 枸橘 【カラタチ】 trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata), hardy orange
- 船殻 【センコク】 hull
Kun reading compounds
- 殻 【から】 shell, husk, hull, pod, chaff
- 殻竿 【からざお】 flail (for threshing grain)
- 雪花菜 【おから】 okara, soy pulp, tofu dregs, edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu
- もぬけの殻 【もぬけのから】 completely empty (of a residence, etc.), vacant, deserted, body from which the soul has left, corpse, shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
- 殻 【がら】 chicken bones (e.g. for soup), chicken carcass, poor-quality coke (coal), left-overs, remnants
- 灰殻 【はいがら】 ashes
- 燃え殻 【もえがら】 embers, cinders, burnt residue, combustion residue
Readings
- Korean:
- gag
Spanish
- concha
- cáscara
- casco (buque)
Portuguese
- casca
- concha de noz
French
- coquille
- enveloppe (grain)
| 1075 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1869 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2456 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1832 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1455 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1728 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1846 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1626 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1141 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1883 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1000 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1354 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 717 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 1490 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2996 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 710 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 767 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1451 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1468 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3p8.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-7-4 | SKIP code |
| 4724.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-19-44 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6bbb | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1351 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 虫垂炎 【チュウスイエン】 appendicitis
- 虫えい 【チュウエイ】 gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
- 幼虫 【ヨウチュウ】 larva, grub, maggot
- 寄生虫 【キセイチュウ】 parasite
- 虫部 【キブ】 insect radical, worm radical
- 蟻巻 【アリマキ】 aphid, plant louse, plant lice
Kun reading compounds
- 虫 【むし】 insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm, roundworm, thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious, nervousness, fretfulness, person devoted to one thing, single-minded person, valve core, mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
- 虫歯 【むしば】 tooth decay, cavity, decayed tooth, dental caries
- 苦虫 【にがむし】 bitter-tasting bug
- 馬追虫 【うまおいむし】 Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid), Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- む
- Korean:
- hwe, chung
Spanish
- insecto
- bicho
Portuguese
- inseto
- bichinho
- temperamento
French
- insecte
- vermine
- ver
- reptile
- colère
| 114 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 74 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 56 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1073 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4115 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 133 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 875 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 324 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 873 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 893 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 466 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1604 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4343 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2199 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2959 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 523 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 32804 | Morohashi |
| 3530 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5275 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 517 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 556 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 60 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1671 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6d0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-6-3 | SKIP code |
| 2-4-2 | SKIP code |
| 5013.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-35-78 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 866b | Unicode hex code |