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

14 strokes (also 15)
Radical:
tree
Parts:
water pipe, gutter, downspout, conduit
Kun:
とい
On:
トウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1814 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 樋 【とい】 trough, gutter, water pipe, flume, chute, coulisse (of a sword blade)
  • 樋川 【ひがわ】 (water) spring
  • 木樋 【もくひ】 wooden water pipe, wooden flume
  • 筧 【かけひ】 open water pipe, conduit
  • 樋 【とい】 trough, gutter, water pipe, flume, chute, coulisse (of a sword blade)
  • 鎖樋 【くさりとい】 rain chain (hanging from a gutter and functioning as downspout, often made of ornamental cups)

Readings

Japanese names:
て、 と、 とよ、 とわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tong1
Korean:
tong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2338 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2299 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1353 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
982 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15415X Morohashi
2757 New Nelson (John Haig)
2520 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2580 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a10.28 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
1-4-7 SKIP code
4793.2 Four corner code
1-40-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6a0b Unicode hex code