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

4 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
heavens, sky, imperial
Kun:
あまつあめあま-
On:
テン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
512 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 天 【テン】 sky, heaven, God, svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth), deva (divine being of Buddhism), top (of a book), sole (of a Japanese sandal), beginning, start, tempura, India
  • 天下 【テンカ】 the whole world, the whole country, society, the public, supremacy over a nation, government of a country, the ruling power, having one's own way, doing as one pleases, peerless, incomparable, superlative, world-famous, shogun (Edo period)
  • 炎天 【エンテン】 blazing heat, scorching sun
  • 楽天 【ラクテン】 optimism

Kun reading compounds

  • 天津 【あまつ】 heavenly, imperial
  • 天津乙女 【あまつおとめ】 celestial maiden
  • 天 【あめ】 sky
  • 天地 【てんち】 heaven and earth, the universe, the world, nature, land, world, realm, sphere, top and bottom, gods of heaven and earth

Readings

Japanese names:
あき、 あも、 た、 たかし、 て、 なま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tian1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • paraíso
  • cielo
  • imperial

Portuguese

  • paraíso
  • ceú
  • imperiais

French

  • cieux
  • ciel
  • impérial
119 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
67 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
58 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
364 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
16 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
78 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
41 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
93 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
141 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
141 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
462 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
410 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4250 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2148 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2898 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
435 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5833 Morohashi
3442 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1138 New Nelson (John Haig)
428 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
457 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
277 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
34 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3163 2001 Kanji
0a4.21 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-1 SKIP code
1043.0 Four corner code
1-37-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5929 Unicode hex code