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貪

11 strokes
Radical:
shell 貝
Parts:
一 个 ハ 目 貝
covet, indulge in
Kun:
むさぼ.る
On:
タン、 ドン、 トン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貪 【タン】 coveting, raga (desire)
  • 貪欲 【ドンヨク】 greedy, avaricious, covetous
  • 貪 【タン】 coveting, raga (desire)
  • 貪欲 【ドンヨク】 greedy, avaricious, covetous
  • 貪 【タン】 coveting, raga (desire)
  • 貪欲 【ドンヨク】 greedy, avaricious, covetous
  • 無貪 【ムトン】 non-craving, non-coveting

Kun reading compounds

  • 貪る 【むさぼる】 to covet, to crave, to be greedy for, to hunger for, to lust insatiably for, to indulge in, to do ceaselessly, to keep doing (without losing interest), to eat greedily, to devour

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tan1
Korean:
tam

Spanish

Portuguese

French

505 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1837 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2630 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1821 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
36680 Morohashi
5777 New Nelson (John Haig)
1713 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2a9.20 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-9 SKIP code
8080.6 Four corner code
1-76-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8caa Unicode hex code

汚

6 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
一 二 勹 汁
Variants:
汙
dirty, pollute, disgrace, rape, defile
Kun:
けが.す、 けが.れる、 けが.らわしい、 よご.す、 よご.れる、 きたな.い
On:
オ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
908 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 汚水 【オスイ】 filthy water, sewage
  • 汚職 【オショク】 corruption
  • 防汚 【ボウオ】 antifouling, stain resistance, stain-proofing, anti-soiling
  • 貪汚 【タンオ】 greed, corruption

Kun reading compounds

  • 汚す 【よごす】 to pollute, to contaminate, to soil, to make dirty, to stain, to disgrace, to dishonour, to dishonor, to defile
  • 汚れる 【けがれる】 to be violated, to be corrupted, to be polluted, to be stained
  • 汚らわしい 【けがらわしい】 filthy, unfair, dirty, untouchable, disgusting, nasty, foul, odious, repulsive
  • 汚す 【よごす】 to pollute, to contaminate, to soil, to make dirty, to stain, to disgrace, to dishonour, to dishonor, to defile
  • 汚れる 【よごれる】 to get dirty, to become dirty, to become sullied, to become corrupted, to lose one's chastity
  • 汚い 【きたない】 dirty, filthy, foul, unclean, disordered, messy, untidy, poor (e.g. handwriting), indecent (language, etc.), dirty, vulgar, coarse, dastardly, mean, base, underhanded, stingy, greedy
  • 汚い戦争 【きたないせんそう】 Dirty War (period of state terrorism in Argentina; 1976-1983)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu1
Korean:
o

Spanish

  • sucio
  • manchado
  • manchar
  • deshonrar
  • ensuciar
  • difamar
  • obsceno
  • ensuciarse

Portuguese

  • sujo
  • poluir
  • desgraça
  • estupro
  • sujar

French

  • sale
  • polluer
  • disgrâce
  • profaner
  • souiller
1031 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1246 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2494 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1531 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
666 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
693 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
706 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
907 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1158 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
258 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
163 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
196 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1253 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17133 Morohashi
222 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3047 New Nelson (John Haig)
1245 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1334 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1083 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
352 2001 Kanji
3a3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-3 SKIP code
1-3-4 SKIP code
3112.7 Four corner code
1-17-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c5a Unicode hex code