Jisho

×

貧

11 strokes
Radical:
shell 貝
Parts:
ハ 刀 目 貝
poverty, poor
Kun:
まず.しい
On:
ヒン、 ビン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
1211 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貧 【ヒン】 poverty, penury, want, need, insufficiency, shortage, deficiency
  • 貧血 【ヒンケツ】 anemia, anaemia
  • 清貧 【セイヒン】 honourable poverty, honorable poverty
  • 極貧 【ゴクヒン】 destitution
  • 貧乏 【ビンボウ】 poverty-stricken, destitute, poor, penurious
  • 貧乏人 【ビンボウニン】 poor person, the poor

Kun reading compounds

  • 貧しい 【まずしい】 poor, needy, lacking (quantity and quality-wise), poor, scanty, skimpy, slight, inadequate

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pin2
Korean:
bin

Spanish

  • pobreza
  • pobre
  • escaso

Portuguese

  • pobreza
  • pobre

French

  • pauvre
  • pauvreté
705 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
798 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
777 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1282 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
600 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
836 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
920 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1498 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
753 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
766 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
859 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1727 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2631 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1344 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1822 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
789 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36677 Morohashi
2123 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5782 New Nelson (John Haig)
782 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
845 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
745 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2061 2001 Kanji
2o9.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-9 SKIP code
2-4-7 SKIP code
8080.6 Four corner code
1-41-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ca7 Unicode hex code

乏

4 strokes (also 3)
Radical:
slash 丿
Parts:
乙 丶 ノ 亠 廴
Variants:
destitution, scarce, limited
Kun:
とぼ.しい、 とも.しい
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1646 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 乏精子症 【ボウセイシショウ】 oligozoospermia, oligospermia
  • 乏尿 【ボウニョウ】 oliguria
  • 耐乏 【タイボウ】 austerity, voluntary privation
  • 困苦窮乏 【コンクキュウボウ】 hardships and privations

Kun reading compounds

  • 乏しい 【とぼしい】 meagre, meager, scarce, limited, destitute, hard up, lacking, scanty, poor
  • 乏しい 【とぼしい】 meagre, meager, scarce, limited, destitute, hard up, lacking, scanty, poor

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fa2
Korean:
pib

Spanish

  • escaso
  • limitado
  • pobre
  • insuficiente

Portuguese

  • privação
  • escasso
  • limitado

French

  • insuffisant
  • limité
  • indigent
1805 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1587 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
150 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
932 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1029 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
754 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
767 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
860 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
23 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2432 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1228 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1693 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1223 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
133 Morohashi
1933 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
46 New Nelson (John Haig)
1215 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1300 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1017 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2070 2001 Kanji
0a3.11 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
2-1-3 SKIP code
2-2-2 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
4-3-4 SKIP code
2-2-1 SKIP code
2-1-2 SKIP code
2030.7 Four corner code
1-43-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e4f Unicode hex code

人

2 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
人
person
Kun:
ひと、 -り、 -と
On:
ジン、 ニン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
5 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 人 【ジン】 -ian (e.g. Italian), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite), -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with ..., man, person, people
  • 人為 【ジンイ】 human work, human agency, art, artificiality
  • 米人 【ベイジン】 American person
  • 俳人 【ハイジン】 haiku poet
  • 人 【ニン】 counter for people
  • 人気 【ニンキ】 popularity, public favor, condition (e.g. market), tone, character, nature
  • 同人 【ドウジン】 same person, said person, the person in question, coterie, clique, fraternity, kindred spirits, comrade, colleague, dōjin, doujin, Japanese fans or hobbyists who produce their own magazines, manga, software, etc.
  • 代人 【ダイニン】 substitute, deputy, proxy, representative, agent

Kun reading compounds

  • 人 【ひと】 person, someone, somebody, human beings, mankind, man, people, humans, human (Homo sapiens), (other) people, others, character, personality, nature, capable person, competent person, suitable person, right person, adult, grown-up, I, me, one
  • 人一倍 【ひといちばい】 (much) more than others, exceedingly, extremely, unusually
  • 貴人 【きじん】 aristocrat, nobleman, dignitary, person of high rank
  • いい人 【いいひと】 good-natured person, good person, (one's) lover, boyfriend, girlfriend

Readings

Japanese names:
じ、 と、 ね、 ひこ、 ふみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ren2
Korean:
in

Spanish

  • persona

Portuguese

  • pessoa

French

  • être humain
  • personne
30 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
39 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
9 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
339 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
11 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
14 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
1 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
15 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
42 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4175 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2111 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2857 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
960 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
344 Morohashi
3368 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
99 New Nelson (John Haig)
951 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1023 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
7 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1262 2001 Kanji
2a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-2-4 SKIP code
8000.0 Four corner code
1-31-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4eba Unicode hex code

子

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed 子
Parts:
子
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
こ、 -こ、 ね
On:
シ、 ス、 ツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code