Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
shell
Parts:
poverty, poor
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
1211 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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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

5 strokes
Radical:
clan
Parts:
people, nation, subjects
Kun:
たみ
On:
ミン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
28 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 民 【ミン】 citizen, resident, person, user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)
  • 民意 【ミンイ】 popular will, will of the people
  • 自民 【ジミン】 Liberal Democratic Party, LDP
  • 公民 【コウミン】 citizen, freemen

Kun reading compounds

  • 民 【たみ】 people, citizens, subjects, folk
  • 民草 【たみくさ】 people, populace
  • 国民 【くにたみ】 people of a country
  • 流浪の民 【るろうのたみ】 wandering people, nomadic tribe

Readings

Japanese names:
ひと、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
min2
Korean:
min

Spanish

  • gente
  • pueblo

Portuguese

  • pessoas
  • nação
  • assuntos

French

  • peuple
  • nation
  • citoyen
518 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
619 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
590 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
70 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
25 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
246 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
206 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
333 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
177 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
177 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
536 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1149 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3770 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1922 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2614 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1851 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17028 Morohashi
3036 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3021 New Nelson (John Haig)
1834 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1976 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
30 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
459 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3756 2001 Kanji
0a5.23 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
4-5-1 SKIP code
7774.7 Four corner code
1-44-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c11 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
go, do
Parts:
boulevard, street, town
Kun:
まち
On:
ガイカイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
891 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 街 【ガイ】 street, quarter, district, area
  • 街宣車 【ガイセンシャ】 sound truck (used for campaigning, advertising or propaganda), loudspeaker van, (right-wing) propaganda vehicle
  • ウォール街 【ウォールガイ】 Wall Street
  • 中華街 【チュウカガイ】 Chinatown
  • 街道 【カイドウ】 highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period), main road, highway (e.g. to success), path (to becoming ...), subdistrict (in China)
  • 街道筋 【カイドウスジ】 highway route (Edo period), main route

Kun reading compounds

  • 町 【まち】 town, block, neighbourhood, neighborhood, downtown, main street, street, road
  • 街角 【まちかど】 street corner
  • 眠らない街 【ねむらないまち】 city that never sleeps
  • 街々 【まちまち】 streets

Readings

Japanese names:
また
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jie1
Korean:
ga

Spanish

  • avenida
  • calle
  • ciudad

Portuguese

  • bulevar
  • rua
  • cidade

French

  • boulevard
  • rue
  • ville
461 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
819 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
790 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1626 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1181 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1721 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1570 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
186 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
186 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
371 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1615 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
702 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
421 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
528 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
899 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
34051 Morohashi
576 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1759 New Nelson (John Haig)
890 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
955 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
580 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2053 2001 Kanji
3i9.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
2122.1 Four corner code
2110.4 Four corner code
1-19-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8857 Unicode hex code