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赤

7 strokes
Radical:
red, naked 赤
Parts:
土 赤
red
Kun:
あか、 あか-、 あか.い、 あか.らむ、 あか.らめる
On:
セキ、 シャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
584 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 赤軍 【セキグン】 Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946), Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Japanese Red Army, JRA
  • 赤外線 【セキガイセン】 infrared rays, infrared radiation
  • 七赤 【シチセキ】 seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west)
  • 日赤 【ニッセキ】 Japanese Red Cross Society (abbr), Nisseki
  • 赤銅 【シャクドウ】 shakudo, gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
  • 赤銅色 【シャクドウイロ】 brown, tan

Kun reading compounds

  • 赤 【あか】 red, crimson, scarlet, red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange), Red (i.e. communist), red light (traffic), red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red, complete, total, perfect, obvious, copper, red 5-point card
  • 銅 【どう】 copper (Cu), bronze (medal)
  • 紅赤 【べにあか】 beniaka, variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh; product of the Kawagoe region, bright red tinged with yellow
  • 真赤 【まあか】 bright red, deep red
  • 赤い 【あかい】 red, crimson, scarlet, vermilion, Red, communist
  • 赤色 【あかいろ】 red, red color (colour), communism, the left
  • 赤らむ 【あからむ】 to become red, to redden, to blush
  • 赤らめる 【あからめる】 to blush, to redden

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あこ、 あま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chi4
Korean:
jeog

Spanish

  • rojo
  • enrojecer
  • enrojecerse
  • sonrojarse

Portuguese

  • vermelho

French

  • rouge
35 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
51 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
46 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
476 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4534 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
275 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
254 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
443 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
207 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
207 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
46 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1751 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2719 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1389 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1876 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1759 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36993 Morohashi
2193 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5840 New Nelson (John Haig)
1743 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1880 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
406 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
68 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1441 2001 Kanji
3b4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
4023.1 Four corner code
4033.1 Four corner code
1-32-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8d64 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

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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

腕

12 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
卩 夕 宀 月
arm, ability, talent
Kun:
うで
On:
ワン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1163 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 腕力 【ワンリョク】 physical strength, brute strength, arm strength
  • 腕白 【ワンパク】 naughty, mischievous, unruly
  • 鉄腕 【テツワン】 strong arm
  • 怪腕 【カイワン】 remarkable ability, amazing ability

Kun reading compounds

  • 腕 【うで】 arm, skill, efforts, ability
  • 腕時計 【うでどけい】 wristwatch, watch
  • 細腕 【ほそうで】 thin arm, slender arm, slender means, meager ability to earn a living
  • 太い腕 【ふというで】 big arm, brawny arm

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wan4
Korean:
wan

Spanish

  • brazo
  • habilidad
  • talento

Portuguese

  • braço
  • capacidade
  • talento

French

  • bras
  • aptitude
  • talent
1945 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1114 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3786 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1180 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
850 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1299 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1376 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1342 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1038 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1269 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
687 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
919 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1430 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29631 Morohashi
1006 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4837 New Nelson (John Haig)
1418 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1522 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1550 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3956 2001 Kanji
4b8.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
7321.2 Four corner code
1-47-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8155 Unicode hex code

捻

11 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
一 ｜ 个 扎 心
Variants:
twirl, twist, play with
Kun:
ね.じる、 ねじ.る、 ひね.くる、 ひね.る
On:
ネン、 ジョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high

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  • 捻挫 【ネンザ】 sprain, twist, wrench
  • 捻軍 【ネングン】 Nian Rebellion (of China; 1851-1868)
  • 揉捻 【ジュウネン】 rolling freshly-picked tea-leaves, crushing tea

Kun reading compounds

  • 捩る 【ねじる】 to twist, to screw, to wrench, to sprain
  • 捩る 【ねじる】 to twist, to screw, to wrench, to sprain
  • 捻くる 【ひねくる】 to twirl, to spin, to fiddle with, to change (e.g. wording)
  • 捻る 【ひねる】 to twist, to wrench, to turn (a tap, switch, etc.), to twist (a body part), to bend, to sprain, to strangle (to death), to wring (an animal's neck), to defeat easily, to beat, to make (a problem, design, etc.) intricate, to make peculiar, to make complicated, to manage to compose (a haiku, song, etc.), to wrap (a monetary gift) in paper

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian3
Korean:
nyeom, nyeob

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1940 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2094 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
604 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
457 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12222 Morohashi
2201 New Nelson (John Haig)
2251 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1716 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3c8.25 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
5803.2 Four corner code
1-39-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
637b Unicode hex code