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

7 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:
separate, branch off, diverge, fork, another, extra, specially
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N4
214 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 別 【ベツ】 distinction, difference, discrimination, separate, different, another, extra, exception, exclusion, classified by, ranked by, according to
  • 別院 【ベツイン】 branch temple
  • 無差別 【ムサベツ】 indiscrimination, without discrimination, indiscriminate
  • 告別 【コクベツ】 farewell, leave-taking

Kun reading compounds

  • 別れる 【わかれる】 to part (usu. of people), to part from, to part with, to be apart from, to separate (of a couple), to break up, to divorce, to lose (e.g. one's mother), to be bereaved
  • 分ける 【わける】 to divide (into), to split (into), to part, to separate, to divide up, to classify, to sort out, to divide out, to share, to distribute, to deal out, to dish out, to distinguish, to discriminate, to differentiate (between), to break up (a fight), to mediate, to call a draw, to tie, to push one's way through (a crowd), to sell

Readings

Japanese names:
べっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bie2
Korean:
byeol

Spanish

  • separar
  • aparte
  • distinto
  • dividirse

Portuguese

  • separar
  • ramo desligado
  • divergir
  • garfo
  • outro
  • extra
  • especialmente

French

  • séparer
  • spécialement
  • diverger
  • extra
  • un autre
508 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
607 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
579 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
255 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
674 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
288 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
127 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
435 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.12 Japanese for Busy People
267 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
267 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
397 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
188 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1434 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
760 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1032 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
91 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1924 Morohashi
1117 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
467 New Nelson (John Haig)
90 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
94 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
227 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
490 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3743 2001 Kanji
2f5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-2 SKIP code
6220.0 Four corner code
1-42-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5225 Unicode hex code