Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
flats, counter for houses, eaves
Kun:
のき
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1416 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 軒 【ケン】 counter for buildings (esp. houses), suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
  • 軒昂 【ケンコウ】 high-spirited, in high spirits
  • 一軒一軒 【イッケンイッケン】 each house, every house, house to house, door to door

Kun reading compounds

  • 軒 【のき】 eaves, narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
  • 軒並み 【のきなみ】 row of houses, every house, each house, every door, all, totally, altogether, across the board
  • 傍軒 【そばのき】 barge course

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xuan1
Korean:
heon

Spanish

  • alero del tejado
  • contador para casas
  • alto

Portuguese

  • apartamentos
  • sufixo para contagem de casas
  • beiral de telhados

French

  • gouttière
  • auvent
  • compteur de maisons
1215 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1260 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4611 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
953 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
939 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1187 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1246 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
508 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1772 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1851 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
980 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1328 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1667 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38187 Morohashi
1459 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5944 New Nelson (John Haig)
1652 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1781 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1393 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1555 2001 Kanji
7c3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-3 SKIP code
5104.0 Four corner code
1-24-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ed2 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
legs
Parts:
before, ahead, previous, future, precedence
Kun:
さきま.ず
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
173 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 先 【セン】 former, previous, old, first move (in go, shogi, etc.), opening move
  • 先駆 【センク】 forerunner, precursor, pioneer, leader, outrider, outriding
  • 機先 【キセン】 forestall
  • 互先 【タガイセン】 even game (esp. in go)

Kun reading compounds

  • 先 【さき】 point, tip, end, nozzle, head (of a line), front, first, before, ahead (of), (the way) ahead, beyond, future, previous, prior, former, recent, last, destination, address, place where you do something, rest (e.g. of a story), continuation, remaining part, the other party
  • 先行き 【さきゆき】 the future, future prospects
  • 小手先 【こてさき】 tip of the hand, (use of) one's hands, cheap trick, superficial wit, superficial cleverness, cheap, makeshift (e.g. measures), shortsighted, perfunctory, halfhearted
  • 矛先 【ほこさき】 point of a spear, spearhead, focus (of one's attack, criticism, etc.), aim, target, brunt, force (of an argument), edge
  • 先ず 【まず】 first (of all), firstly, to begin with, before anything else, probably, most likely, almost certainly, virtually, more or less (satisfactory), on the whole, reasonably, anyway, at any rate, for now (at least), for the time being
  • まず第一に 【まずだいいちに】 first of all, in the first place, to begin with, for starters

Readings

Japanese names:
ぽん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian1
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • antes
  • adelante
  • previo
  • precedencia
  • extremo
  • punta
  • final
  • anterior

Portuguese

  • antes
  • prévio
  • na frente
  • futuro
  • precedência

French

  • avant
  • devant
  • précédent
  • futur
  • antériorité
33 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
43 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
49 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
201 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
571 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
65 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
16 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
280 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
50 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
50 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
48 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
145 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3046 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1552 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2123 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
254 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1349 Morohashi
2394 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
350 New Nelson (John Haig)
248 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
263 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
115 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
54 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2457 2001 Kanji
3b3.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-2 SKIP code
2421.1 Four corner code
1-32-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5148 Unicode hex code